While pulling weeds I noticed a black spider with white hair.  It was poised in the shadows of a broad hosta leaf.  A slight breeze moved the leaves every few minutes.  An unsuspecting small grasshopper was sunning him/herself on the tip of the same leaf.  As the breeze blew the spider crept closer.  The grasshopper just cleaned its legs and kept preening itself.  All of the sudden the spider flew, faster than I had ever seen a spider move, to the tip of the leaf as the grasshopper leapt away.  I wish the spider got the grasshopper so I could see yet another link in the food chain.  There is so much to see if we can only find it…