summer is over, fall has been here a few days now, but the tree ain't showing it. The trembling aspen that i follow, looks very much the same as last month. Considering it hasn't grown much over 20 years, i suspect only to see the seasonal changes. but no yellow in the leaves is showing yet. The middle of August, sometime the middle of August does start showing yellow leaves, i do often think that it has more to do with drought then with fall time weather. Morning temperatures are plus 5, no frost yet. But we had a ton of rain lately, that might account for leaves still green, as green as can be with the silver-grey from the miners.
It makes me look close at the tree, i see the folds in the bark, droplets of the red sap, the dusty bark, but i all expect to see that, . I see spiderwebs and dead insect bits. those look plausible.
and then suddenly i see her! later on @inaturalist i find out it is probably a running crab spider. She totally blends in with the bark, i wonder if she is dead too and touch her legs lightly, ha not knowing her apt name yet, she does run away, and scrutinizing the tree on the other side i find her again or is it another one.
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