And now about the spiders

[pilottttt]

This big and scary^{small and not scary at all} spider was discovered on our ceiling. It was my macro lens that made it big and scary ;)

Comments

[gingicat]

Cool how the eyes are mostly hidden in the stripes!

[pilottttt]

Yes! Actually, spiders have a lot of them, but it doesn't immediately catch your eye ;)

[gingicat]

Indeed :)

I have a photo of a similarly-tiny spider that I took a decade ago, its little black eyes look almost like a crown. (It's on an apple near the stem, so the scale is very evident. I left that apple in the tree.)

[pilottttt]

Wow! And it can be viewed on the Internet?

[gingicat]

I'll post it sometime!

[gingicat]

I had posted it to Flickr at the time - here it is! https://flic.kr/p/h57nFN

[pilottttt]

Wow, what a little one! How did you manage to spot him there?!

[gingicat]

I don't recall! It was at s pick-your-own orchard, so I may have been about to pull his perch off of the tree.