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A late spider
Most of the golden orb webs around my place are empty or torn down at this stage of our wet and chilly autumn. But this hardy specimen is still holding her own at the light rail stop, and seemed not to mind posing for my phone camera (and giving me a chance to figure out how to do images on WordPress).



