Isn't nature amazing!(not for arachnaphobics!)

[OakLeaf]

Eek! And I'd been thinking I was brave for nonchalantly wrestling my oregano away from the garden spider with the 3 cm body that's set up housekeeping in my herb bed!

ETA: OIC, that's a golden silk orb-weaver, same genus as the ones we have in Florida. Big and very docile, but accidentally walking through their webs is a little bit freaky - that silk is tough. The funny thing is that the big ones are the females. The males are less than 1.5 cm legs and all!

[tulip]

My father has told me about spiders catching birds when he was growing up in southern Louisiana. I've seen those spiders and their webs, way up in the trees, and I'm glad I'm not a bird.

[Biciclista]

I'm glad I'm not a spider OR a bird.