D207-2012 IHNC.  Pale yellow tubular flowers in a spike, with feathery foliage.
Can you spy the spider?
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Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 26, 2012
(nex5n)
Fuchsia in profusion - with a smidgen of spider
A tree peony in the Peony Garden

Nichols Arboretum, Ann Arbor, Michigan
May 8, 2012
(nex5n)
Spider Momma and Babies #6 (1:36:58 pm)
A large spider watching over a hatch of little spiders.  I didn't realize until I began to process these shots that when I first photographed the spider at the beginning of this part of my walk (12:58 p.m.) the spider babies were all in a balled mass, and when I returned to photograph them at the end of that walk (1:36 p.m.) they were beginning to disperse.
Spider Momma and Babies #5 (1:36:05 pm)
A large spider watching over a hatch of little spiders.  I didn't realize until I began to process these shots that when I first photographed the spider at the beginning of this part of my walk (12:58 p.m.) the spider babies were all in a balled mass, and when I returned to photograph them at the end of that walk (1:36 p.m.) they were beginning to disperse.
Spider Momma and Babies #4 (1:35:55 pm))
A large spider watching over a hatch of little spiders.  I didn't realize until I began to process these shots that when I first photographed the spider at the beginning of this part of my walk (12:58 p.m.) the spider babies were all in a balled mass, and when I returned to photograph them at the end of that walk (1:36 p.m.) they were beginning to disperse.
Spider Momma and Babies #3 (12:58:45 pm)
A large spider watching over a hatch of little spiders.  I didn't realize until I began to process these shots that when I first photographed the spider at the beginning of this part of my walk (12:58 p.m.) the spider babies were all in a balled mass, and when I returned to photograph them at the end of that walk (1:36 p.m.) they were beginning to disperse.
Spider Momma and Babies #2 (12:58:26 pm)
A large spider watching over a hatch of little spiders.  I didn't realize until I began to process these shots that when I first photographed the spider at the beginning of this part of my walk (12:58 p.m.) the spider babies were all in a balled mass, and when I returned to photograph them at the end of that walk (1:36 p.m.) they were beginning to disperse.
Spider Momma and Babies #1 (12:58:03 pm)
A large spider watching over a hatch of little spiders.  I didn't realize until I began to process these shots that when I first photographed the spider at the beginning of this part of my walk (12:58 p.m.) the spider babies were all in a balled mass, and when I returned to photograph them at the end of that walk (1:36 p.m.) they were beginning to disperse.
A Daddy Long-legs spider on a plank bridge over Fleming Creek.
I like that you can see the delicate shadow of the spider in this shot.  I've decided that it's an optical illusion of perspective that the front-most leg on the right side seems to bend downward so sharply, then curve upward so dramatically.  Compare that leg with, for example, the second leg from the back on the left side of the spider.
(As the photographer, I'm allowed to say that technically this is a crappy picture.  I didn't have time to focus manually on the spider, since it was skittering away in protest to my hovering presence.  Naturally autofocus chose the wood, not the spider as the main subject.  So I fell back on my usual cop out in such cases and applied a little filtering.)

Parker Mill County Park,
Washtenaw County, Michigan
September 29, 2011
D207-2012 IHNC. Pale yellow tubular flowers in a spike, with feathery foliage.
Can you spy the spider?
.
Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 26, 2012
(nex5n)
D207-2012 IHNC.  Pale yellow tubular flowers in a spike, with feathery foliage.
Can you spy the spider?
.
Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 26, 2012
(nex5n)
D207-2012 IHNC. Pale yellow tubular flowers in a spike, with feathery foliage.
Can you spy the spider?
.
Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor, Michigan
July 26, 2012
(nex5n)
See photo in original gallery.