Spiders

There’s something about spiders that makes them appear smaller in pictures than appear in real life. Did you ever notice that? Multiple times I’ve seen spiders and thought, “man, that’s really big!” Then you take a picture of it and in the picture it looks really tiny. Maybe there’s something about our brains that makes them seem bigger to us than they really are. Is there a scientific reason for this? I was thinking, maybe in real life our brains fill in the gaps between the spider’s legs and make them seem bigger because we interpret them as being dangerous, but don’t do that when looking at a picture because it’s not a danger at that point. I don’t know why it happens to be honest.

When Mason and I got home yesterday there was a giant spider next to our front door. I guess it has something to do with our wet and mild summer, but giant spiders are everywhere right now. The funny thing about this spider was, the day before Susan had hung a giant fake spider for Halloween on the wall directly behind where the real spider had spun its web; it’s as if we had hung a big welcome sign, and this garden spider had taken us up on our offer. Normally I’m a “live and let live” type of guy when it comes to spiders but this web was located in the “take one wrong step and you’re getting a face full of web and giant spider” zone. So, armed with a yard stick, I removed the web and relocated the spider to the front lawn.

Before removing the web I took a picture of the giant, monsterous creature. In the photos, he’s so small you can barely tell where he is.