Last night I did as planned. Picked up things from home, etc. I'd put everything in the car, and was preparing to turn it on to leave when I realised - upon switching on the headlights - that something was on my car staring at me.





I did later take a picture with a flash, but this is how it looked when I first spotted it and freaked out at it.

I sat in my car trying to work out if these things bit or stung or what ... (yes, yes, I'm not very nature-inclined, so I realise I was probably way off on it doing any of those aforementioned things). And then I was trying to work out how to get it off my car, so I could drive off without it being blown off into the wind or something terrible like that. I wanted to get it off without touching it too, lol.

I ended up sitting in the car looking at it for a few minutes, and taking a picture (because as squicked out as I was, it's still a beautiful thing), before I decided to try and coax it onto a big stick and relocate it to a tree somewhere. I managed to get it onto a stick, but it fell off after I moved it a little and I wasn't game enough to put my hands down around to find it - the idea of something climbing/crawling on my arm squicks me out even more.


I don't know what happened to it after that, but I hope that it got away safely to live another day (just not on my car.)