Smiling yellow six spike spider? Sounds good to me! lol I was walking through my backyard today and nearly had this spider planted on my face while almost walking through it's web! What was interesting besides the shock that wore off...was how it behaved. When looking at it at first, I didn't know what I was looking at. When I saw the face on the back, I thought that was funny. God has some imagination! Anyway, I ran in to get a camera and then took nearly a 100 photos. I just kept pressing the shutter button because the web was pulling back and forth in the wind. The spider more or less ignored me. I went and grabbed a stick and probed at it and got it to move a little bit. What was unusual was that when I poked at it further, noticing how tough the 'shell' was that the spider started pulling it's web apart, grabbing from around itself. Strange. Next thing I noticed....after a few minutes it started dropping about half and inch on a string of web silk and allowed the wind to carry it back to the web to probably fix it. It repeated this a few times and then went back to the middle. I noticed that the web streamers ran from the flowers below to the tree above in two other directions. Also, there are these white/thicker sections like markers to show where the boundaries(?) are. This is the first time I've ever seen a spider like this in my life! It's quite amuzing to look at it though! I have more pictures. That smile on the back, kinda like a snowman smile! lol :)