The season of giant orb-weaving spiders comes again to Poughkeepsie, with this one stretching a web across the decorative grasses bracketing the (unused) front door:
While I screwed around with the camera, she dashed off to one side and began wrapping a package:
Her spinnerets release a torrent of silk during that operation!
Dragging it back to the middle of her orb, she settled down for breakfast.
So did I…
Hand held with the Sony DSC-H5, facing westward in dawn light, using the flash to bring the image up out of the mud. A touch of unsharp mask and some contrast stretching; nothing too drastic.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 
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My favorite Far Side cartoon: Two spiders finishing a catch-web at the bottom of a playground slide: “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings.”
A big leaf snagged on a web strand high over the front yard and has been twisting in the breeze for the last two weeks: spider silk is good stuff!