For the last month or so, the roads and driveways in the Hollow have been populated with thousands of orange-striped oakworms. Some are crawling, some have been squashed, and some are dead for some reason unknown to me. (If you follow me on Facebook, you may remember remember when I posted photos and a video of the adult moths all over my porch last year.)
On my porch right now is a writing spider (Argiope aurantia, I think).
She is beautiful and has plenty to eat, as she has built her web under my porch light. Unfortunately, she attaches part of it to the screen door every night, and it comes loose when the door is opened n the morning.
And then there are these beauties that were once caterpillars.
French Broad Hollow Ramble 