Nothin' Like a Good Spider

Spider Haters - Beware! Click off this post if they give you the willies, lol. Personally, I like most of 'em. When I find them in the house, for example, and can beat the cats to them, I'll scoop them up on a piece of paper and toss them outside. They eat pesky bugs, after all.

Let me introduce you to Gustavo Augustus:

Can't see him? Look close - right in the middle. 

Gustavo (or one of his/her descendants) is a huge, beautiful spider who shows up around this time every year, spinning the most glorious webs! They are pretty much in the front flower bed, sometimes to one side of the porch. Once he'd built one *across* the porch, and I had to break it and move him in order to get out of the house. But it was huge and amazing!

And hey, he keeps the bugs away, too. Here's a (debatably) better picture of him. At least you can see him in this one,  even if the picture is fuzzy:

So -don't hate on my spider, man! Gustavo Augustus is awesome!

:)