Ouachita mountains Arkansas.

Some Tarantulas have no respect for age! As I walked up to this Tarantula, that was minding it's Tarantula business in the middle of the "Million Dollar highway", it reared up, like an eight legged Trigger, in a valiant attempt to scare me away. I fear no Tarantula, well maybe a little but not enough to shriek and run away. I lay on the ground stomach first so I could get a spiders eye shot of this little beauty. As soon as I was all the way down she dropped all eight legs to the ground and was off, like Trigger toward the sunset. I groaned and slowly got back to my feet, I'm almost to old for this stuff. Luckily she stopped at the edge of the road, laughing her little Tarantula laugh no doubt. I was able to get this one shot before she scurried into the underbrush.

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© Rex Lisman