All my spidey friends

Thought this still appropriate for the day after Halloween.
Some of my human friends are saying "I thought she hated spiders . . . .?"
Sharing with Saturday's Critters

And BTW, no one correctly identified what my re-purposed jack-o-lantern was from a couple days ago.  It was the sand filter from our swimming pool pump which had to be replaced this year.

Garden spider

An enormous garden spider at my in-laws' a couple of weeks ago.

Huge.

About two inches at least.

Two's company

Photo ops still few and far between, and mostly limited to the home grounds.

I'm grateful we have a good sized property and no neighbors to amuse with my squatting, bending, and sitting on the ground.

I did a little Googling and I'm calling these "blue-winged wasps".  They have a scientific name, but that's much to hard for my retired, keep-it-simple mind.  They feed on grubs and do not usually sting.

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Good Fences @ The*Run*Around*Ranch

Having salad

Bee Bb

Three bees in the blueberries.

You're being watched

This was one of the taller Zinnias in the batch.

It reminds me of a city of skyscrapers and he is on the tallest roof watching everything.

Update:  This photo earned a 3rd Place ribbon in the "flower category" at the

2013 Middle Tennessee District Fair, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Sharing with:
Tuesday Muse

Beginning and ending

A new Zinnia and an old one.

A flying thing

I don't know what this thing is, but we have them every year.

Eat your leafy greens

He thought he was fooling me

but I had already caught him in the act.

Only a few stems were down to a nub.

Sunny orange

From 2010 at 

Joe Wheeler State Park golf course.

In the eye of a spider

Canon 100mm f2.8L lens, hand held no flash, f10, 1/40, ISO 2500, cropped a lot

 See me?  There in the eyes?

Canon 100mm f2.8L lens, hand held, with flash, f4.0, 1/60, ISO 400, cropped a lot

Canon 100mm f2.8L lens, hand held, f4.0, 1/50, ISO 320 no flash, cropped a lot

The end.

Update:  The last photo earned a 1st Place ribbon in the "insect category" at the
2013 Middle Tennessee District Fair, Lawrenceburg, Tennessee

Take a picture . . .

. . . it'll last longer.

This is a repost from a couple of years ago.  

I'm out of new things!

At a loss

for a title.

Dude

What can I say.

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Your Sunday Best

Flowers for Leontien

for a new friend, Leontien

Spring Bee

Christmas Bugs

Linking with:

Lady Bug, Lady Bug

and

Outdoor Wednesday

and
Share the Joy Thursday

Busy Bee

Beans, beans, everywhere beans.

The soy bean crop surrounding our property.