Our front-door spider scrunches up in a corner during the day.

Spider’s hiding place

There’s a lot of dark specks and stuff, but the dark blob in the corner is the spider. Even up close it’s hard to tell what it is.

When it starts to get dark, the spider comes out.

Slowly I turned

Here it is in the vertex of its ragged web.

Ragged web

I had thought spiders (at least some spiders) repaired their webs every night, but apparently this web still works OK. It’s not really this dark, but the flash completely overwhelms the background here.

And here it is, up close and personal.

A little too close for comfort

It looks prickly. Not too inviting to pet.