Upon My Doorstep this morning

[Shellie]

Since we are on the subject. I have two tarantulas that need a good home. They don't eat much...a few crickets here and there. I had three, but I found a home for one.

I got three within a couple of weeks of each other. One by a student for the classroom. One came from a teacher moving away and couldn't take it. One was given to my son for his birthday. After Buzz, Webster, and Sophia settled in their new home...I found out that tarantulas can live 30 years.

[Susie Hamilton]

This thread reminds me. At work in the spring I have to watch where I walk. If I walk between bushes or trees, I have to keep my mouth closed so I do not swallow a spider. I almost did last summer. I have been getting spider webs on my arms lately, I hate that feeling.

[pitts47150]

You said, "Waiting for the big one." This one looks like it is big enough. I wouldn't want any that were bigger.

[Gerald Creasy]

You've seen my Spider now look at my Snake Doctor.

[free]

Gerald said:

I thought Man! I'd like to see one now that I have a camera! Within a week he shows up on my doorstep.

"Ask and you shall receive..." You didn't "name it and claim it" di you Gerald?

[paul]

Garden Spider

What is so really odd about this is that just a couple of days ago, the local paper printed a pic of one and I remembered seeing one as a child and one about ten years ago. I thought Man! I'd like to see one now that I have a camera!

Within a week he shows up on my doorstep.

Thanks God for the small wishes, still holding out for a few of the larger ones.

Wow Gerald you are becoming a word of faith man. jk

sorry, I just could not pass that up.... please don't lambast me

I pray the bigger ones come to pass also.

[dolfan]

There's a Robert Frost poem hidden in that photograph somewhere.

[TW]

She's a beauty! And - I think dolfan right, there has to be a robert Frost poem hidden in there somewhere.

Ode to a Garden Spider


TW

[Jennifer Smith]

I LOVE Robert Frost! He would make that even more beautiful with words...

[Jennifer Smith]

You've seen my Spider now look at my Snake Doctor.

WHAT is that? It looks like "the Fly" from the movie!

You're so blessed you don't even know what to do!

Seriously, I think the Lord does drop surprises so often... and we just have to notice and appreciate them and say thank-you....it happens to me when I get to see birds or other animals when driving. God is so good.

[TW]

You've seen my Spider now look at my Snake Doctor.

WHAT is that? It looks like "the Fly" from the movie!

You're so blessed you don't even know what to do!

Seriously, I think the Lord does drop surprises so often... and we just have to notice and appreciate them and say thank-you....it happens to me when I get to see birds or other animals when driving. God is so good.

It's a Dragonfly, or more correctly an Anisoptera.

A dragonfly is a type of insect belonging to the order Odonata, the suborder Epiprocta or, in the strict sense, the infraorder Anisoptera. It is characterized by large multifaceted eyes, two pairs of strong transparent wings, and an elongated body. Dragonflies are similar to damselflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most dragonflies are held away from, and perpendicular to, the body when at rest.

TW

[dolfan]

"Design", by Robert Frost:

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.

What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

A Further Range, copyright 1936.