Eye see you still there
focusing on your sweet friend
with “I”s to no end
[Note: Look at all the eyes along her cephalothorax!]
Fishing Spider… Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
Further Beyond Spider Prejudice — Haiku
Eye see you still there
focusing on your sweet friend
with “I”s to no end
[Note: Look at all the eyes along her cephalothorax!]
Fishing Spider… Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
Tom's Nature-up-close Photography and Mindfulness Blog 
What a stunning (if slightly scary) photo Tom.
I’ll take the stunning but the scary… you can keep. 🙂
Impressive arachnid. Fine detail!
Thanks, Belinda! Those eyes (in a row) lower down along the sides crack me up! 🙂
What an amazing shot! I’m still creeped out by spiders but I have a new perspective because if your photos 🕷🕸
*of your. (I hate my phone lol)
Great, Dorinda! Gradually unlearn to see their intrinsic beauty. And i am being serious! 🙂
I’m trying!! 🙂
a true stunner! who does not dress like those old, boring crowds of copy cats!
Yes indeed! A wonderful outfit for a small body! 🙂
Nice capture!
I’m glad he was cooperative! 🙂
Great picture Thomas. How big is that spider?
Thank you, Francis! Around 1 1/2 feet. Around one inch actually! It’s a Fishing Spider; they love ponds! 🙂
Now, that made me laugh out loud!
This is very very very scary…
Not! 🙂
I think creatures with more than 6 legs are a wee bit frightful, beautifully frightful 🙂
Wow! so good picture. It’s a wild spider or a pet? Our biggest spider we have in Sweden is giant house spider, size of one this spiders leg!😁 I use to have them at home sometimes and I never kill a spider. I let them be, or take them out.
Thank you, John! I gently take them outdoors too. My wife still goes nuts when she sees one. Great that you do not kill them! 🙂
I hade a corn snake for seven years. It was a baby when I bought it.
Awesome! 🙂 I had a pet king snake many years ago. We are friends with someone who had a lot of very poisonous and non-poisonous snakes many years ago; but when he got married, his wife made him get rid of them all.
OK, I know I’m not supposed to be afraid, Tom…but that pounding
you hear is me running for the hills.
That means that we still have more work to do (which, of course, means more similar pictures will be forthcoming)! Tee-hee 🙂
Better to see you with! Nice
Thanks, Michael! 🙂 They are Fishing Spiders and hang around the river bank we live on.
Well Tom, I want to say he’s a cutie pie, but I’m just too darn scared of spiders to say that in honesty. But, I’m sure you captured his best side. 🙂 I had never heard of a fishing spider until a week or so ago, when a story made the CBS news about a massive fishing spider in Indiana. I had to Google to see what it looked like and find the story as well. I am sending it along in case you missed it. Just looking at the spider in this news story sent chills up my spine:
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/07/giant-spider-elkhart/680952002/
Thanks for that article, Linda; very interesting! Now i’ll have to look for a 7 incher! We live on a river, so naturally, we see Fishing Spiders a lot more than others do. One time a huge one somehow got into our house. How it got in is beyond me because our house is sealed very well and is well built. I was watching television while lying on the floor. Marla was sleeping on a couch. I later briefly fell asleep for a few minutes and when i woke up i saw a huge Fishing spider right next to my bare legs. I had a huge pair of fang marks in my leg. I caught the spider in a jar and released it. It took awhile for those fang marks to finally disappear; (i mean weeks!) So far, i haven’t turned into Spiderman. 🙂
I can hear my daughter screaming now, and I haven’t even shown her the photo yet! LOL!
Tell her, with a serious, straight face, that there is real beauty in it if one just looks without past learned garbage. 🙂
I tell her how spiders are good and they eat the pesky bugs, but she remains unconvinced. The strange thing is, she thinks all snakes are cute!
Well, she’s getting there! 🙂 (Just make sure to teach her the difference between the poisonous and non-poisonous.)
Just last week I saw the largest jumping spider I’ve ever seen on one of the boats I was working on. He was tucked in a place where he apparently felt safe, since he didn’t jump, and I got a chance to look at him — and those eyes! — from about a foot away. No camera, but cameras aren’t always necessary!
The Jumpers are among my favorites! They have stereoscopic vision. I have some fossil jumping spiders in 50 million year old amber. 🙂
This is so clever! “I’s to no end”…I wish I thought of that!
What is beautiful is the word spider, when you put it to numbers is 71 or 8 🙂