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August 18, 2005
In Which I Come To Terms with Large Spiders in My Backyard
Two spiders have spun themselves homes right outside of our home. They're either sisters or bitter rivals, as they have constructed rather elaborate and identical webs directly opposite each other.
I admit. They kind of creep me out.
But, thankfully for The Husband -- who would otherwise be cajoled and emotionally harassed into removing the spider sisters from the premises -- I tend to believe that you can come to terms with anything if you can come to terms with it on an aesthetically formal level:
Still, I wouldn't count on spiders making it into any of my paintings soon.
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I get quite a few of those in my yard as well. Neighbors have informed me that the species is informally known as "writing spiders." (Note the zig-zag pattern in their webs.) They can get pretty huge but they're perfectly harmless, and quite striking in appearance.
Posted by: Franklin at August 18, 2005 02:03 PM
