I was working on something in the yard and decided to take a break. I looked over into the garden thru the fence, to see if anything new had bloomed out and something on the fence caught my eye. It looked like a twig and I was about to knock it off the fence, but something stilled my hand. What was it about this twig that caught my eye? Then it moved. HAH, it was a walking stick. I'd never seen on up close like this before and after that one movement, it froze again. I waited to see if it would move and of course it didn't, so I shook the fence a little and it spread it's front legs a little. Once the shaking stopped, it froze again.
Break time over, I realized I needed to get into the garden to finish up my task. In order to do this, I was going to have to move the fence and this little guy was going to go flying off somewhere. So I figured it would be nice to move him to a spot, he'd be a little safer in, and by that, I mean safe from me.
There's a good sized bush growing wild next to the fence, so I moved him there. He seemed to wave one of his arms at me, as if to say thanks. Either that, or he was cursing me out for moving him to a spot he had no desire to be in. (shrug)
Making my way into the jungle that was once a garden, I almosted walked right into a spider's web. This spider had made it's web from the fence to one of the cherry tree saplings that my daughter gave me, and also had a web set up on the fence. That's where I spotted it. It was a really fat spider, I've never seen one so round before. It looked like an ingorged tick or something, it was so round.
I tried to see if it would stretch out a bit more and wiggled the fence, but it didn't move a bit. Oh well, onward into the jungle.
Just a few steps away was another spider. This one was more like the garden spiders I was used to seeing, only it was curled up. I took a few pictures of it, hoping it would move, but it didn't, so once again, I shook the fence and it shot up into the leaves. Great. Not sure if you can make it out tucked up in the leaf house it seemed to have made for itself. Smart spider.
The last small subject I came across on my way out of the garden. I went to move a branch out of the way and saw something orange in all the green. Taking a closer look I saw this...
There are so many little things out there that go without being seen. Good for them I guess. I'm trying to make it a point to be a little more observant so as not to miss anything. Who knows what I'll see next summer. :)
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