The spiders have decorated for Halloween.

I went outside on a wet, foggy morning, everything covered with dew, and discovered that there are spiderwebs everywhere. Seriously. The trees are actually draped with possibly dozens of spiderwebs, smaller, like those, or big and freakishly scary, like. . .

. . . that one. Yeah. :P I think I'm more afraid of spiderwebs than I am of spiders. With the exception of black widows and brown recluses. *shudders* I mean, I like little hopping spiders, or cute baby spiders in little webs on garden plants (they're killing the bugs! Yay!), and I know that makes me pretty weird for a girl, but big, brown, bouncy spiders hanging in places where people walk. . . at, quite possibly, nose height. . . yikes.

Fortunately, though, I'm short enough that they're often above my head. Haha. :)

A frog.

The bug is a fractal.

I have no idea what this bug is. I'm not even sure whether it's really a bug, since all it does when I poke it is quiver. It came from the top of the big ash tree in our yard -- the tree had split and needed to be cut down, and my brother spotted it when we started dragging branches out of the driveway.

Edit: I cannot believe it -- randomly surfing the web and I found another picture of the thing. It's called a Crowned Slug Caterpillar.

Eep.

It's much too hot.

I suppose blogging is like writing.

In order to get better at it, first you have to write lots and lots of posts and not worry so much about how good they are. It's a way to take the rust off too. And I'm awfully rusty.

Monarch caterpillar