I'm trying my best to show the beauty of spiders, cuz I know a lot of people are afraid of them.
Garden spiders don't do anything wrong, they aren't poisonous, they only bite people as a last resort if they are caught, and they typically leave people alone. They aren't house spiders (except the one above my computer, smart little bugger discovered my house is warm XD)
So really all they do wrong is look scary to people. It's sad, actually...
This is the really big spider I found in my back yard that I played with. And then it did something beautiful. It shot out a very long web and began to climb, making this elegant shape with the web in the sunlight.

Maybe I'm the only one to find this to be one of the most beautiful pictures I've taken, but I hope other people recognize the beauty of it as well.

Nature, no matter what it is, never ceases to amaze me.