Photo of the Week – May 3, 2012
This little jumping spider was hanging out on an almost-blooming shell leaf penstemon plant this afternoon. I happened to spot it as I was walking by, and stopped to see if it would sit for a...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – June 27, 2013
The wind finally let up enough to do some close-up photography last weekend, so I went to a small prairie here in town and wandered a bit. Among numerous curiosities was the abundance of a tiny...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – August 21, 2015
How could you look at this spider and not think it’s cute? This beautiful jumping spider was in my background last weekend. I cajoled it onto a piece of cypress mulch and took its portrait. The crazy...
View ArticlePhoto of the Week – October 1, 2015
This has been a week of big black spiders. …In a good way. First, my wife brought home a huge black wolf spider one of her biology students caught. It stayed the weekend, and my stepson helped me...
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