<p>A couple of days ago my daughter came to find me because she found “a cool spider eating a bee!”. It’s a crab spider, in particular a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misumena_vatia"><em>Misumena vatia</em></a>, and has been hanging out on an orange poppy in our front yard ever since.</p>

<p>A <a href="http://www.popmath.org.uk/rpamaths/rpampages/sunflower.html">description</a> of the mathematics of a sunflower is fascinating!</p>

<p>I’ve started reading a new <a href="http://visualsciencelab.blogspot.com/">blog</a> recently and two things really strike me: the square crop and the less-is-more attitude about equipment – here’s practicing both.</p>