Garden Encounter

I met this handsome spider in my herb garden a few days ago as I was performing a yearly chore. The garlic chives that make ornamental V's in the box beds are hardy and attractive but, left to their own devices, they will self-sow like mad.

So every year I make a point of cutting off the spent flowers and ripening seed heads before they drop those little black seeds everywhere.

There was one problem: Ms. Spider's web was attached at one end to a garlic chive flower. She crouched there, staring at me with all those eyes, and I couldn't bear to destroy her lovely web.

So we came to an accommodation: I carefully trimmed away all the flowers except the one her web was attached to. (Click on the picture to biggify and see if you can find Ms. Spider.)