One thing that has always signaled the end of summer for me is the appearance of huge spiders in my doorway. They have gorged themselves all summer long on moths and mosquitoes and they are spinning their last webs of the year. Where do they go after the first frost? Who knows, but they always return next year.
This fine fellow was hanging a web in my parent’s porch in Virginia.
At an airshow many years ago, I grabbed a quick photograph of a flock of birds. The Atlanta smog was making the planes that I had come to see hazy specks. These low flying creatures were a nice change. Though the airplanes were impressive, I have always been fascinated by the fact that birds accomplished flight millions of years before man.
We have all seen photos birds in flight, but I thought this one was interesting because you can see all the various stages of flight… from full wing extension to the wings pulled all the way into the body. A few feathers, bones and muscles = flight.
