On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Yolanda Rowe <yprowe at gmail.com> wrote: > John S, I share your 'love' of spiders of any size, and I think they > know it. Sometimes it seems that I have a target on my back. I have > seen some of the largest specimens of my life since we moved to > western Tennessee a few years ago. > > Garden spiders are nothing new, but I keep reminding myself that the > fatter they get from eating the bugs, the healthier my flowers should > be. I haven't been able to rationalize the existence of the wolf > spider. This one adds and extra level of freak-out due to its size. > > http://yolandarowe.smugmug.com/Photography/PDML/n-LKWPP >
The first one is colorful. Wed Sep 25 23:10:27 EDT 2013 Yolanda Rowe wrote: > I'd have put my house on the market if either of the ones I shot were > in the house proper. Finding that wolf spider in the breezeway was too > close for comfort. The Dachshund had to take an alternate route for > his walks for a couple of weeks. LOL I had one that lived at the bottom of the kitchen window for several months, back in San Diego. It was a nice symbiosis: he(she?) was catching fruit flies. One day I spent about 3 hours shooting it: http://42graphy.org/galleries/spider/ (sorry, I did that gallery in Flash and never got to redo it in HTML.) Igor -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
