Hundred of Legs, Easily
Monday, September 21st, 2009I’m not sure how this happened, but our garden has become a sort of spider sanctuary.
They are everywhere, usually at the level of my neck. My delicate, exposed, thin-skinned neck. They can probably see the blood coursing through my veins, just below the milky-white surface.
I’ve come to know a few the spiders, if not as friends, certainly acquaintances. There’s Eunice, who is either full with egg sack or just a very successful eater and has made the doorway to the basement her home. Yesterday, I watched her defend her territory against another spider, smaller of body but longer of leg, who wanted to build her web in the same doorway. As I watched, I backed up slightly because Eunice and her adversary were level with my eyes and seemed to be both accomplished jumpers and ferocious biters. It was only as I turned away to head back up the stairs that I noticed I’d backed right into Green Bean Spider’s web. Luckily, she’s a little more timid and chose to flee rather than attack the back of my head.
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