Southeast US: mystery spider

[pipisafoat]

I have been meaning to get a picture of this spider for identification purposes (I think it's an orb weaver? Any thoughts on that definitely welcome!), and I sort of got distracted while I was out there.

All these pictures can be clicked for larger/uncropped, but those are pretty huge, so click at your own bandwidth's risk.

This particular spider likes her web to be right beside the sidewalk between the front door and my car. This is only a problem because she scared me quite a bit the first time I saw her. Huge! Brightly colored! MOVING!!

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[pipisafoat]

actually it wasn't blooming this morning; I really have no idea what's going on with that. but I did get some other flowers that were blooming! Probably I won't get them up tonight (resizing and whatnot, ugh) but soon!