A Barn Owl for Halloween

Please full view for the actual image. Some of my watchers are arachnophobic, so I hide the spider images behind the “cartoon-y one”.

I watched a spider make the drop from the ceiling onto a house plant. Seemed like an opportunity to get some shots. I took a whole bunch of pictures – the spider scaring me half to death a couple of times, I’m not as over the arachnophobia as I like to think I am – and then… I killed him. (I think it’s a “him” anyway based on the pedipalps [link] )

After going through the photos on the computer screen, I started feeling bad about killing him. He was almost cute. But at the same time, I cringe when I think about him moving around on the plant.

Macro shot cropped to feature the spider. Please ignore the dust on the plant.

With the coloring of the spider and the position of its “head,” the “face” looked a bit like a barn owl to me.