Saturday, September 15, 2007

Day #142 Fall Friend


Macaulay Mountain Museum Garden
Spiders are quite big by this time of year, and the more colourful ones stand out until the fall colours become predominate. This one has a fascinating pattern on its back.
Last year, I went out onto the little upstairs balcony of my cabin around midnight to look at the stars and I was suddenly bitten on the bottom of the foot - I imagine a spider which, feeling the vibration, thought he had caught a dinner big enough to last the next month.
It felt like I had been bitten by a viper - not that I ever have - and I danced around in pain for at least an hour.
I rarely go out onto any deck now in my bare feet.
Still, after reading Charlotte's Web, I still have respect for them and enjoy watching them.
(Friday, Sept. 14 - blogsite wouldn't come in.)

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