Thank you! I was so afraid every one here would be so highly skilled that you would find all kinds of things wrong with my images that I couldn't see, but although I was right about the highly skilled part thie people on this forum are very positively oriented! I am pleased.
The spider is always as you see it here, they all look just like this, but differ in size. The heavy white portion of the web differs in width and pattern slightly however, which is where they get the name "writing" spider. There is a superstition that if you see your name written in it's web you're going to have good luck, or is it bad luck? Ah well, I've never seen my name so I guess it doesn't matter lol.