Thank you for responding. I should have paid more attention to the size of the spider. I remember thinking it seemed smaller than what I'm used to seeing as far as size so thought it might be a male because it seemed so slender...or perhaps a "baby", "young spider". I read that they hatch in September? I photographed this spider on my squash plants in early September so I thought maybe it was a "youth" (for lack of a better term).

As far as pedipalps, can you see them well enough in my photo? I should have taken a full frontal shot.

are fairly obvious in the shots in the Guide, and they are seen pretty clearly in your third image. They don't seem enlarged to me. Then again, as I said, maybe that doesn't mean a whole lot if this is a young specimen. Let's hold out and hope that one of the spider pros puts in his/her two cents.