Misc.

I just dug my camera out of the glove-box of my scooter and there were some photos on it from the fall that I never got around to posting

First of all, Spiders love my life-jacket.  I keep a life vest in my kayak at Lake of the Isles and I’ve often noticed that it is a bit spiderier than your average piece of landscape, but this summer I left it unused for a month and found it entirely coated in cobwebs and egg-cases.

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I brushed them and scraped them off and shook my vest a whole lot.  I am slow on the uptake, but opted not to actually wear the vest.  I crammed it behind my seat and set off.  Here is a once-in-a-lifetime photo of me living dangerously and paddling without  a PFD:

Me, just before the spiders crawl all over the damn place.

And here’s a close-up that I’m especially proud of.  It represents  one of the many varieties of spiders that I discovered climbing all over me, my paddle, and my boat moments after I took the above photo.  I did not take the close-up while on the water but only after a brisk, tense paddle back to shore followed by a few minutes of calming down.

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