* title taken from a Brian Eno song on Before And After Science. (You can listen to the song here, in a player-app halfway down the page.)
Earlier this evening, Herself and I were sitting at our respective computers, reading emails and so forth, when she asked me whether any of my kit was malfunctioning, because there was some noisy buzzing noise.
Not hearing anything apart from the usual fan noise, I came closer to her desk. Yes, there was certainly a buzz.
I looked up, and saw the cause of the noise….
Near a light-fitting on the ceiling, I thumbtacked a few dead CD-ROMs as combination reflectors/artwork. The local spiders, as we know from some previous posts, are fond of setting up webs round here.
This particular little lady is one of those orange-legged types I usually see among the pepper plants. Apparently the cold weather has given her cause to move indoors. In the shot above, she’s dealing with a fly (the cause of the very loud buzz).
In real size terms, she’s a little under an inch in body length.
Her slightly-smaller mate can be seen in this shot.
A reasonable detail shot (still eating the fly).
It probably helps to imagine me on a stepladder, camera raised above my head, squinting into the distant viewfinder.
Eventually Ms Spider had endured as much macro-in-the-face, and retired to her den.
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