Early Saturday morning, I left my house to walk to a neighbor's and something caught my eye against the wall of my garage. I stopped. Ahhh, a spider. It was somehow attached by a single thread of webbing. I took these three photos with my iPhone and left it alone.
Later I entered the photos in iNaturalist and the mostly likely ID was Cross Orb Weaver (Araneus diadematus) spider. Further on-line searching revealed that there are cross orb weaver spiders of many appearances. The photos most closely match Araneus diadematus. The white cross on this spider is easily apparent on the top half of the bottom end. There is also a smaller, dark cross just above the white cross on the top end. I don't know spider anatomy to describe it better. Click on the photo to enlarge and you will easily see this. Middle photo is the best focused.
The spider finally got to move away from the thread that was holding it. I think, however, it may have met its demise in other spidery-like webs near the ground of my garage.
I always need to remember to crop iPhone photos to make them compatible with a site like Google blogger.
Addendum 10/10/2024:
On a gentler note, and probably more appealing to most, I add this photo of a Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) butterfly seen on the sidewalk of my urban neighborhood on 10/08. What a beauty! Too bad the shadows of the overhanging grasses are over it.
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