U-Verse problems = Photoshop playtime!

Yesterday, my wonderful AT&T U-Verse was down all day...no internet, tv or phone.  So out of boredom I started messing around with my pictures and came up with these.  I kind of like them!

Babies on the way!

I found these two spiders on a Gumbo Limbo tree at work, guarding what I assume are their odd egg sacs.  I have googled and googled but cannot find anything that helps me identify what kind of spiders these are.  Any ideas?  They are small and pretty flat...

There are two of these spiders hanging out guarding their respective sacs in a nearby tree.  I "believe" they are Leucauge venustas.  Again, anyone know for sure?

FYI

I started a separate blog for my PA adventures...www.hoeyinpittsburgh.tumblr.com

This place was turning into more PA stuff than FL and I am trying to get it back on track.

Doo, doo, doo lookin' out my backdoor...

We have a green anole that hangs out by the backdoor. Seeing him always makes me smile.  They used to be much more abundant until the brown anoles from Cuba began to take over. They're cute, too, but not as sweet as the greens.

I saw the female Knight (or Cuban) anole in the middle of the backyard this morning.  At first, I thought it ws a young iguana.  Thank God it wasn't!  We took some pictures of her, then she jumped up into the palm tree.  We heard some rustling and thought it was just her, but it turned out to be a male one.  Bigger and more colorful than the female.  We left them alone.  Looks like it may be a morning of lizard love...