Today I had actually planned a deep and interesting discussion on the advantages of landscape foreground. But having noticed this pretty little thing dangling over my head in the doorway this morning, I decided to put that off until another day.
All those arachnologists among you will immediately recognise this attractive creature as a female Argiope bruennichi (wasp spider). I’m not quite sure why she decided to spin her web above our front door because grasshoppers seldom hop that way… they tend to prefer grass. Perhaps if she’s still there in the morning I might move her to somewhere more green and pleasant.
ISO 100 – Enlarged and cropped by Gimp