Right now, in our wrought-iron security door, there is a complex network of webs built by funnel-web spiders. You can get a front-row seat to the action if you watch from inside the house. Sort of like an ant farm, but way creepier. I have counted eight, that’s right, EIGHT funnel web spiders in the network of webs, each perched on the mouth of his or her little funnel porch just behind decorative iron acorns…
In 2006, I took this photo and named it “Nature always wins.” Here’s how that truck looks now. Nature is still winning.
I’ve been in Nashville three years now and I still miss growing my own flowers. There’s nothing keeping me from it, really, except time and money. I’m real short on both these days. Some day I hope to get back to having my own little flower beds and array of potted beauties that will collect the morning dew and sit still while I point my camera at them in the early morning light. At least…
When you get close enough to one of these things, you can see how much they look like some kind of alien cyborg with brightly colored armor. And they just look mean.
This little dude was just hanging out on the knob of the rocking chair the other day.
This guy has been doing art installations in which he gives leaves unconventional shapes. Truly inspiring work.
Apparently if nature throws us a mild-and-rainy summer bone, it means an uptick in the spider population. Which means the outside of our house is constantly draped in spider webs, and I am forever running into them and freaking the hell out. The other night I got a ride home from work and was be-bopping my way toward the front door up the walkway — which I hardly ever do because usually I come in…
Yesterday I learned that if you don’t have your yard mowed for a month — a month full of plenty of rain and sunshine — your grass will grow tall and proud and dense. And do you know what loves to live in tall, proud, dense grass? Families of bunnies, that’s what. So when you finally have someone come cut your tall, proud, dense grass, they might accidentally discover and obliterate a family of bunnies…
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