Bee Gee
(click to triplify) To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee . . . Emily Dickinson
Hatchlings!
Nine days ago, after thinking our doorway spider mom was on her last legs having successfully guarded and hatched the dozens of spiderlings from her first egg sac, she surprised and delighted me with a second ball o’ babies to be and since then I’ve been monitoring it pretty much every day in anticipation of …
Here’s Something One Doesn’t Encounter Every Night While Biking Through Elysian Park
While carrying my bike around a closed gate on Elysian Park Road during the beginning part of another awesome edition of last night’s RIDE-Arc ride, in the darkness I somehow managed to spy something scurrying along the ground out from under my feet and my first thought was I’d disrupted some poor lizard’s evening. Never …
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A Bit O’ This & A Bit O’ That
Pretty productive morning. Got a package sent off to the winning eBay bidder in Virginia — his prize a pair of Justin camel/elkskin boots I’ve had for 20 years and worn maybe four times during that period. Got a haircut, while Susan got our grocery shopping done. Went to see a matinee of “Indiana Jones” …
Empty Nest
So she’s all by herself now, the tiny momma spider who tended her egg sac for weeks in the notch above our front door until her multitude of offspring emerged from it this past weekend. Alone again, naturally. It’s kind of sad because now that she’s done her duty she might herself be done. I …
The Hitcher
 I mark this into evidence as Exhibit No. 4265 why one should always have a camera handy. Don’t know when this fella landed on me or how long he hitched a ride on my pants leg but I noticed him (and snapped this macro) while stopped at Crescent Heights and Sixth and he didn’t …
One Big Family
Yeah this is the second time I’ve posted about this spider and her recently hatched brood, but sometimes the most wonderous and amazing things bear repeating (click to triplify): Making up for a lack of scale, momma spider’s no bigger than a pencil eraser and her surrounding babies are literally a bunch of eight-legged punctuation …