Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: black and white garden spider

I took a picture of our darling girl with a snack this morning, and I'm very happy to say that it appears that she'll be hanging around! It's been several days now and Portia has been catching lots of insects and her web is in a good place where it's not too windy but there's plenty of food sources coming by. I'm so happy, it will be such fun to watch her grow!! She's about 1" in size right now and I believe she'll grow to be 2" at least by the time she's full grown! In fact, if she's the same kind that I've seen in a web once years ago, she could have a diameter of 5" when full grown!! OH I HOPE SO!!! AWESOME!!!! (Just so we're CLEAR: it would NOT be awesome to have this spider crawling on me!!! But as long as she's in her web...AWESOME!!! :D :D :D)