Part of a spam received today:

Dear member, We have noticed that you signed up an account in our system one year ago. However, it appears that you haven't logged into your personal cabinet for an extended period. We would like to inform you of the significance of using the platform on the platform.

Personal cabinet?  I'm guessing their spam thesaurus software went wild and substituted "cabinet" for "wallet."

I especially like the part about "the significance of using the platform on the platform."  LOL.

Oh, silly spammers, you are so, so dumb.

Received today, which is Monday, December 11, 2023.

We noticed that [My eMail Address] has not accepted our new terms and will be disconnected from [My Mail Server] today 13th of February 2023,

Tap below and sign-in to get an updated mailbox to avoid being disconnected from our service.

They could at least try to get today's date right. 

Something I re-post every Nov 11 - "Veterans Day for Just One American Hero" - at stevenhardesty.com

After another long break because we've been playing too much this summer: https://vijayabodach.blogspot.com/2023/10/summer-memories.html

Some mid-October flowers for y'all's viewing pleasure:











For anyone who likes "hoary ancient forest" type imagery, here's a moss-covered dogwood:





Here's a Joro spiderweb I had to take down.  It was in my way, so it had to go.  The spider escaped to safety, so maybe she'll rebuild elsewhere.

You can see a male Joro a few inches above the female.  The males have been lurking in the webs since early September.  They're small, drab, and unremarkable, so I haven't mentioned them yet.  This is the first male Joro pic I've posted.  From what I've been able to observe so far, the female sits in the center of the orb part of the web while the males hang around on the outer "cage" part of the web. 

Also, you can see a tangled mass of silk just above the female.  A few days ago, I speculated that this sort of thing might be a stabilimentum, but then I changed my mind and decided it was just clutter.  Well, I've changed my mind again.  I'm seeing similar silk masses in several other webs, all just above the center of the orb.  Too many to be coincidental.  It's not clutter; whatever it is, it's there on purpose.