Think I shared this before: watching hurricane Helene approaching from our hotel window after we evacuated..

A lit Komodo dragon statue at the Festival of Lights at our Zoo this year.

We get Rose Breasted Grosbeaks duringntheir migration. This buy has been hanging around quite a while and eats the birdseed loke crazy and is kind of a bully. Hard to get a good clear pic. And the bluebird pair at our closest nest box have been very busy. A clutch of 4 just fledged about a week or so ago and they were still hanging around the box for days. So I hated to disturb their activity & never had a chance to clean it out. Yesterday there were 3 new eggs in it.

Lynn, we had tarantulas when I was a kid in Oklahoma. A woman in the neighborhood would kill them, and it still bothers me to think about.😞 Posted on our local Nextdoor site. Consensus was trapdoor spider.