Crafting Rehab

This fall my Salvia ‘Hot Lips’ bushes became the home of a couple of Garden Spiders, a friendly and extremely beneficial arachnid.

The distinctive coloring on a Garden Spider’s abdomen:

A yummy grasshopper dinner:

The largest Garden Spider was longer than my finger (no one knows why they make that thicker zipper-like pattern in the middle of their web):

A Garden Spider egg sac (this one was destroyed before we knew what it was; however, the second garden spider laid one further away from the front door that we’re going to leave alone):

Not from a Garden Spider (the makers of these webs are about the size of a dime), but pretty:

Taken June 2009 @ Gaston County, NC.

Taken June 2009 @ Gaston County, NC.

Taken June 2009 @ Gaston County, NC.

Taken June 2009 @ Gaston County, NC.

Taken May 2009 @ Gaston County, NC.

Taken April 2009 @ Gaston County, NC.

Taken April 2009 in Gaston County, NC.

After finishing a rather large and hectic project (more info on that next week or so), I decided to take a break and put together a puzzle. It took me about 3 days and was my second 3D puzzle ever (the first was a model of the earth back in high school). A rather more humorous picture can be seen at the ferret blog. >.>

Alpine Castle Puzzle

Brand: Puzz3D by Milton Bradley

Puzzle Name: Alpine Castle

# Pieces: 1000

Appalachian Mountains #3

Taken July 2008 between IN and NC.