Watching You Watching Me

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.