While on the topic of spiders, I should mention that I like to insert them into pictures (when they fit). Here’s one that crawled into a children’s mural. She is named Charlotte, just like the spider in the famous book by E. B. White. And I can happily report she was based upon an actual spider that we (the child and I) found somewhere out in the garden, captured and photographed. Afterwards, she was released back into the wild, and thus no spiders were injured (only temporarily inconvenienced) for the making of this painting.
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