Look up "Garden Spider". Some of them are huge, and some have orange and yellow on them.

When we lived out in the Los Angeles area, we had this big Weeping Fig tree (yeah, like what's in malls and offices...only this was planted in the ground, and large!) in the back yard. I was out there with the kids one day, standing close to tree with my face near the leaves, and something looked funny. I turned to look at the leaves, and there was this HUGE (4" circling around it's legs) bright green spider about three inches from my face perched in the leaves. Yes, I backed away from the tree! It lived in the tree...I saw it (or it's relatives) from time to time while we lived there. We also had black widow spiders, but since the kids were pretty young and played in the yard, we sprayed them and made them go away. They didn't live in the fig tree.

LOL. Trying to picture that...

well i did see the orb weavers (orb weavers, what a cool name!) but didn't see a match...went and typed in garden spiders and still no match.

this one had a magnificent sort of hallucinogenic quality!

"Took a spider to show and tell..."

:) !

beware the barking spiders.

'twasn't the spider, 'twas the dog!

(who hasn't blamed the dog?)

I have arachnophobia (Not sure if I spelled it right) lol...

i was thinking about leonard cohen from that clip eileen posted and wanted to check out some of his music and came across this...i about busted out crying

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq7Aqd_H7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc-P8oDuS0Q
here is one just for fun!

"We'll all be dancin'......dancin' in the streets......."

This is an invitation
across the nation
A chance for folks to meet.

They'll be swingin', swayin'
and records playin'
and dancin' in the street

Really like that tune. Thanks NK!

i was at the american indian museum today! (recognized some george catlin paintings) also noticed some totem poles! "wow...totem poles..." ...didn't expect to see (upon closer inspection) that they were made of things like golf bags and tennis racket cases! also unexpected was the fair going on this weekend! got me a flute...that's right i did! not an incredibly fancy one but it sounds pretty good...and it is signed by the guy i got it from...he made some very nice cedar ones as well (got to hear him play some too!) and the food there was pretty good...really basic stuff like quinoia salad and pupusas with slaw....(very simple, but very good)


a cartoon short
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBtwlU9vAK0
i am still tickled to know that sneaky pete at some point had a hand in these!
as a kid i remember i especially loved the kachinas in the sky sequence

Anyone for some sweet soul food

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5kHx1itU8c

(for Dexy's Midnight Riders)

The NAMI has the best food by far of any museum on the Mall.

And Sneaky Pete? Wow, what a talented man -- not just Gumby, but some of the Star Wars and Terminator movies, too.

And this is what you find out about when you follow Joan Baez on Twitter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbTgsP9Rs0s

based on what i have seen, i will agree!
(i love the lou reed touch in that vid...can't help it!)

NK: "i don't care what the white man say, santa claus is a black man."-- "freddie washington"