Before school got out, one of my boys came home with a very terrifying statistic. No matter where you are, you are never more than seven feet away from a spider. My reaction to this was shock, and disgust. Everyone who has ever had the chance to see me freak over a spider knows the overwhelming fear that I have for those eight legged monsters.

But, the other morning I called a truce with the venom-spitting nasties, and set out on a mission to find something that I liked about them (the list was short). But I did realized that spiders are amazing architects and creators of short lived forms of art. Here are a few of my favorites from the morning that I admired them from afar with a really good zoom lens.

I went back to disliking them the minute I thought one was crawling through my hair and I hit my head on a tree when violently shaking to get it off me. I will never be convinced that they aren't out to get me.