Disturbing things you find...

So, spiders don't bother me since, by technicality, we are 'on the same side' with the fact that they eat the bugs that normally give me the heebies.  This one decided to make itself the 'gate keeper' to our house.  IT WAS RIGHT NEXT TO THE DOOR KNOB!  Needless to say our visitors don't share my same sentiment in spiders so we had to evict her to another spot. It is a marbled orb spider and it does appear that big in person.  Normally they are a dull brown color and create these massive webs which if you can get to stick to black card stock make awesome backgrounds. 

This next 'thing' I found VERY disturbing - "Where is that darn 'gate keeper'?"  This thing was beyond huge.  It appears to have wings which makes it even worse.  Let me tell you that I am no longer a big fan of 'yard-ening'.  I would have passed out cold had this thing landed on me.  I am not really sure what it is but I hope it is a singleton. 

Believe it or not I greatly enjoy camping and hiking and such but draw the line at bugs.  Especially when they appear to be created by Frankenstein himself. 

For those of you that do not like spiders, the gatekeeper succumbed to the season.  As far as the bug monster, I have no idea what happened to it; I am hoping it met with the same fate as the spider.