This, That, and the Other

John Steiner, the blogger behind Journeys With Johnbo, has this prompt he calls Cellpic Sunday in which he asks us to post a photo that was taken with a cellphone, tablet, or another mobile device. He invites us to participate in this cellphone photo prompt by creating our own CellPic Sunday post and linking it back to his.

Since I moved into my current home in 2020, I’ve been fighting a losing battle with holes in my yard. Gopher holes, mole holes, and vole holes. But I’ve recently discovered around a dozen new holes in the ground in the mulch at the back of my property. The holes are perfectly round and range in size from about a U.S. nickel to a U.S. quarter. Holes like the one below.

I believe these are spider holes, specifically tarantula spider holes, since we usually have some heavy tarantula fornication going on in our backyard during the tarantula mating season from late August through October.

I’ve been checking these holes since they started to appear to see if I could get a glimpse of a spider in one of the holes, and I have actually seen one or two, but if I bent down close enough to take a picture, they must see me with their eight little spidey eyes and disappear deeper into their spidey holes.

But this morning I set my iPhone to 10x zoom so that I wouldnt have to bend down and scare the spider deeper into the hole. And this is the result:

Gotcha spidey!