{"id":580,"date":"2014-10-20T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/?p=580"},"modified":"2014-10-20T10:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:00:26","slug":"a-visitor-in-the-rosemary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staceetaft.net\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"A Visitor in the Rosemary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love our Rosemary bush.<\/p>\n<p>It provides delicious flavors, smells and is beautiful to look at<br \/>\noften hosting a collection of little visitors for us to inspect&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But the other day, my son&#8217;s birthday to be exact,<br \/>\nwe had a very beautifully creepy visitor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-583 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1023c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1023\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I don&#8217;t know exactly what kind it is,<br \/>\nat first glance, while backlit, it looked like a red crab&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-593\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1025c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1025\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, since I hadn&#8217;t seen this kind before,<br \/>\nI, being a good photographer, grabbed my camera&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-584\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1032c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1032\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It kept spinning and building it&#8217;s web while I photographed it!!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1034c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1034\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-586\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1035c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1035\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Happy photographer.<br \/>\nIt was fascinating to see how she pulled, attached, and spun her web.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-587\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1036c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1036\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-588\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1037c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1037\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t want to be late for my son&#8217;s soccer game, but&#8230;<br \/>\nThis needed to be documented!<\/p>\n<p>It was simply too cool!<\/p>\n<p>Now I do NOT consider myself a nature photographer <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">all<\/span>,<br \/>\nespecially when creepy-crawlies are involved&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I leave that to my talented brother-in-law, Mat!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-589\" src=\"http:\/\/staceetaft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1040c-720x479.jpg\" alt=\"A Visitor in the Rosemary - 1040\" width=\"720\" height=\"479\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But I couldn&#8217;t resist capturing her progress,<br \/>\nwhile cringing a little at the thought she might come in the house<br \/>\nthe next time I brought a bunch of Rosemary inside. 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