Happy Monday, friends! I’m excited to introduce you to Lauren Spencer King, the wonderful lady in the wonderful photo above. I stumbled upon Lauren’s blog, The Sphinx & the Milkyway, not too long away and I clicked away excitedly, inspired by her words and her images. Lauren is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. [...]

I spotted this beautiful Orb Spider above by it’s intricately woven web – concentric circles with spokes. Unbelievably, orb spiders often make a new web everyday – consuming their old web, resting and then respinning.  They have eight eyes and eight legs which can be hairy and/or spiny.  They are harmless (they can bite but [...]

The Green Lynx Spider, Peucetia Viridans, photographed in Pasadena, California. They can be found in mostly the southern United States, in some parts in Northern California, Central America, the West Indies, and Venezuela.  It is known to aggressively attack it’s prey (not humans but in the rare case it does bite it is painful but harmless) and perhaps got [...]