Chamber of Mirrors

Well now. Crumby actually reached 100 species in January. That's 100 birds of Class Aves for the Big Ass Year to date. But now, that goal met, Crumby is taking a hard earned break from competitive birding. Yes. Crumby is for the nonce alternatively thinking about last weeks house cleaning while preparing himself mentally for this weeks house cleaning. Typically, Friday is the day of the week Crumby cleans house. Last Friday when Crumby brought the mop bucket and mop inside he espied this jumper which must have ridden in on one of the other of those spider conveyances (bucket or mop). Yet Crumby is not the kind of experienced man who could simply let that spider roam the house at will, maybe fixing to get mopped up. No. Crumby needed to catch that particular spider then take it outside. Yet the only spider carrier handy was one of those decorative tins that long ago contained a Christmas cookie or two, but now houses a bag of potpouri or marijuana seeds. Crumby emptied all that out. The chase was on. Jumpers can be hard to catch with only a cookie tin. But this jumper has only seven legs so the want of a leg maybe, slowed her down. Of course, however, once caught, she needed to pose for her pre-release documentation photo. Here that is. Phidippus arizonensis