Spider Tale
felt a tremor the web did sway turned most of my eyes to look that way a monster of a being peered down with glee wiggling and waving a long stick at me hey ugly spider the big face roared poking and prodding web coming unmoored who you trying to scare the last thing it said as chubby arms swung to crush in my head down a spare float line escape through the air lamenting my babies still caught in his hair
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Rather intimidating photo, but great poem. Did you write that poem?
I wrote it.
Lovely and *HUGE* spider. Scared the crap out of me when I almost bumped face first into it.
Disclaimer: I didn't try to smash the spider. It has been gently relocated to a flower bed.
Jerry, that's a great poem. Seriously.
What is that spider? I've never seen one that looked it before. Hope to never, personally.
Who moved it? You or Faith?
Thanks.
It's a black and yellow garden spider, an Argiope:
http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recnum=IS0107
http://tinyurl.com/n2up
Yer makin' my skin crawl, man! Great shot.
These spiders are quite common also in Italy... I have seen a few of them at my parent's place and they do look scary at first, but fascinating after the scare passes and one get the courage of looking at them. The poem is cute and I do believe we are more scary for them than they for us (and they have a reason to be scared).