spiders

Our new(ish) neighborhood seems to take Hallowe'en very, very seriously.  October isn't yet into double digits, and already we have skeletons hanging from trees, tombstones popping up in front gardens, and today, as I walked down the road to pick up my car (we''ve had Red Flag Days, so no parking on our street itself until the Santa Ana winds died down), I passed a whole hedge crawling with synthetic webs and spiders.  I guess I'd better go and lay in a stock of candy ...