Being from the East Coast, I could always find a wonderful spider web with dew on it. Last spring I decided there were no spiders here in my part of the world that created the beautiful webs, so I bought a wooden spider-attracting frame from Target to lure them to my backyard. It was just a simple wooden frame, like a giant bubble blower from a bottle, one that supposedly would attract spiders to build their web in it. It lasted one week — a snow storm came and broke the frame from the heavy wetness. Well, I suppose the word got out somehow that I wanted spiders, 'cause later that summer we suddenly had these giant spiders under our deck.
The creatures were definitely a little freaky at first, one was about an inch long. I did some research and found out they were "cat-faced spiders." If you tailgate this spider, it's rear end actually looks like the face of a cat with ears and all. Seriously. They are harmless garden spiders that create the beautiful webs that I recall from Virginia. Some of their webs last summer grew to three feet in diameter.
This morning I went in the back yard to cut a few roses for my girls' breakfast table and on the way back up the stairs I saw a five-inch web freshly spun, and absolutely, perfectly symmetrical. So, of course, I had to take a picture of it.
Then Chloe came outside and stood at the top of the steps with the sun behind her, giving her this amazing halo. The beauty of nature . . .
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