sounds like a great place for a hike

0830web.jpgDid you hear about the spiders going nuts outside of Dallas, Texas, my hometown?

Tens of thousands of mosquito carcasses sucked dry of their blood weigh down the webs, which look like hammocks stretched horizontally from branch to branch……Hissing cicadas, croaking frogs and red fire ants live in the area around a small pond next to the web-covered trees. Poison oak and ivy speckle the ground at the base of the juniper, hackberry and oak trees…….A foul, musty smell greets visitors as they turn the bend toward the bunched-up webs.

(photo from Dallas Morning News)

All that and 90 degrees and 90% humidity.

Hard to believe I never liked the Great Outdoors when I lived in Texas…..

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5 Responses to sounds like a great place for a hike

  1. Oddly, my friend told me about that just this morning. Can you get a photo?

  2. Note: I just updated this post with a photo, but I don’t think it does justice to the grossness factor….

  3. High-volume executions are a way of life all the up the food chain there, huh?

    Mexico can have Texas back anytime it wants, as far as I’m concerned.

  4. But then we’d lose that easy access to such good Tex Mex.

  5. Naw, we wouldn’t loose it. It would just get cheaper across the border. We should have let it be its own country like they wanted. Then we could have imposed import tarifs, etc.