2003sep23. Ran into a tarantula in Sedona. We were three feet away from it, and it just kept ambling across the trail ... so I got out the camera and took some low-to-the-ground action shots. It tolerated this for awhile, then it came to a dead stop and raised up two of its legs and that just creeped me the hell out, like it was gathering strength to shoot a laser beam through my skull. “You’ve had your fun, little boy, now run along.” We moved forty feet away and it held the Solid Defense pose ... it’s quite possibly still hunched up like that, ready in case I drive back there one day. Waiting.
