ESB*

Home from Seattle
today—now to get ready
for Saturday’s trip!

(*Not Extra Special Bitter, as would be likely in Phil’s journal — on my journal, it stands for Emergency Spider Blip. This is a Cross Orbweaver, Araneus diadematus, who has built her web across the exterior side of the sliding door from our daylight basement. See Ceridwen's excellent close-up of a Welsh one here.

Exactly a year ago, I blipped a gravid Cross Orbweaver!)

Blip 1039