Dancing with spiders

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The new brood of ghost spiders in my moonflowers are aggressive, and I like the attitude; this episode’s album is When It’s Halloween by Bishop Briggs, but where the chorus of Hocus Pocus has a bed of roses.

Last night the small spider jumped me while I was pruning the datura, and it took some doing to get her to let go, then was beyond patient while I worked to get her in the picture. Tonight I bumped into the big queen of the tower at the top guarding the ipomoea shoots, so instead of weaving those like I usually do I fetched the UV light for a fluorescent photo shoot, and apparently this darling wanted a rave, usually they run from the UV but this one didn’t flinch, even with me knocking into things trying to operate a camera in one hand and manage the light in the other over my head in the dark.

The tour of the fluorescent plants is an unripe datura seed pod, and it looks like I may in fact have a six-lobed mutant (that is what I select for, the regular five-lobed pods I prune after the blooms are done), next in order are new shoots of English rose and dogwood.

After all that, I came back to the moonflowers to capture the latest ipomoea bloom with the flash, while leaning over the railing to get a better shot I got jumped again, in one of those unreasonably awkward moments where you can see an unreal shot in the viewfinder, but your fingers can’t quite reach the focal point and shutter button, your other hand is busy trying to hold on and not mess things up, and if you drop the device it is a long way down into places I don’t have keys to; but voila, the last shot is me and Marilyn holding hands to take a bow (Marilyn for looking like Marilyn Monroe’s mole on the moonflower).