It's a beautiful day for a walk . . .
Blue skies and a pond for ducks . . .can it get any better?
Only if you can get some good shots of the ducks!
Can't remember what this webbed sac is called but it has been a long time since I spotted one on one of my walks. Ok looked it up -- "It's a funnel web, and as you see consists of a flat, horizontal sheet of web that "funnels" into a tunnel-like hole. That hole is where the spider stays. An insect blunders onto the web, inside the hole the spider feels vibrations of the hapless critter on his web, the spider rushes out, bites the insect, and carries it back into the funnel. As the spider grows it adds new layers to the flat web, so you can look at the web and judge how large the spider is. In the fall, female Funnel Weaver spiders deposit egg sacs in narrow places such as between rocks and loose tree bark, then dies -- sometimes still clinging to her egg sac. Funnel Weaver spiders belong to the family Agelenidae."
Old tree stumps make homes for small critters. . . 
Gone to seed and even more beautiful!
This little guy almost got away from me when I was coming home from the Memorial for 9-11. The people following me thought it was neat that I would stop to take a photo of a little creature that almost lost its life being stepped on. One man said I am just like his son photographing everything. Hopefully that was a compliment. . .
Maybe Fall is in the air after all even tho I hate to admit that summer has said its goodbyes . . . Can winter snows be far behind? Hard to think of when the weather is so hot during "Indian Summer" for us.
I think I find some of the most beautiful things when I go on my walks along the paved trails we have in abundance here. . . this is my favorite subject to photograph on a walk here.
