September 11, 2013

Alternating Between Fascinated & Freaked Out…

spidey

This is a hard post to write. I can’t stop staring at the spider. It’s big. Like half dollar big and it’s living in my front yard.

I was sitting in the office yesterday morning and peeked out the window where something glittering caught my eye. It was a web. A ginormous web. Sitting smack dab in the middle of it was an even ginormouser spider. Yes. You read that right – ginormouser.

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The web is strung between two pine trees in the bed butting up against our front porch.  I could reach off the porch and put my hand right through it. Not that I would EVER do that. Have you ever walked through a spider web?  {Insert me completely freaking out here.}

It’s at least as big as a hula hoop. The workmanship is amazing. When I look past the hairy eight legged fiend sitting in the middle of it, I am in awe. So many almost invisible strings. Such a mesmerizing pattern, even in the spots where the elements have broken the delicate threads. All of it precariously hanging by four strands attached two to each tree. It is a paradox of beauty and horror.

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In the evening, I peeked out again and saw that the spider had opened up to it’s full capacity. I thought I ought to get one last shot, you know, for the blog.

Big mistake.  This fellow {or is it lady?} has two other friends of equal size and creepiness building their own huge webs in one of the pine trees. One dropped down and nearly landed on my shoulder mid photo shoot.

And done. Freaked out wins.

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8 comments:

Apis Melliflora said...

So I thought "ginormouser" works not only because it's a mellifluous combination of giant/gigantic/enormous, but also because that spider looks to be the size of a small mouse, a word embedded in your word.

We had all the neighborhood kids at our house last year staring at just such a spider.

TracyS. said...

I had one of those last week; the kids and I just stared and stared at it's handiwork. If you figure out what kind it is, let me know!

The Queen Vee said...

Nature's artwork and how nice that you got a photo of the artist in action.

Aiketa said...

You are so brave! I think I would never be brave enough to take a photo of it...
I used to have real phobia to spiders... One day, my friend who is a psychologist told me she thought it was turning into something too big and she offered to help me. And she did. I wasn't the perfect patient... because when we arrived at the point that I needed to google spiders... I never did. But I think now I can cope better when I see a spider in real life, though I'm still not fond of them.

Aiketa said...

And it's true, when I see a spider web (though I don't like to look too much in case the spider is there) I'm always fascinated of the elaborate work.

And yes, it's not fun (at all) to walk through a spider web!!!!

Aiketa said...

YAY!!!! I finally catch up with your blog!!! :) :)
Now I'm waiting for the next post! :D

squeezeme said...

I have aracniphobia. This reminds me of when I was a leader at a Girls' Camp outside of Austin Texas and walking back to the cabin each night we would run into ginormouser spider webs with ginormouser spiders in them. I almost died of fright. Please do not let Ollie by this spider web because he might get carried away....

Bells said...

I am freaked out! Spiders SCARE me!~