I was watering the flowers this afternoon when I apparently startled this black widow. It came running to the top of the flower and sat there, giving me the perfect opportunity to grab my camera and take a few shots. This was a VERY big specimen (to me, anyway)--the distance from the outstretched front legs to the back legs was about two inches. There are two species of poisonous spiders in North Carolina, the brown recluse and the black widow, and by coincidence I've seen them both in the past two days (having spotted a large brown recluse walking across a wall in my neighbor's garage yesterday). And no, I didn't kill either of them.