Yesterday we again headed out on the Luce Line State Trail. Recently we had some thunderstorms move through the area so we weren't surprised to find several trees down along the trail. In fact at one point we came upon some very thick mud and ended up having to turn around and go back to the car, luckily we were able to move our car to the next road over and restart the trail without missing any of the trail.

After climbing over several downed trees, we encountered a beautiful Red Spotted Purple butterfly, some small skippers, a long Horned Beetle, and several Meadowhawk dragonflies. They were all great, but nothing compared to the amazing spider I spotted on a wooden bridge.  It was a dark fishing spider. Below I provided a picture I took of it.  The big silver bolt on the right side is approximately the size of a quarter, so yes, that's a big ass spider for Minnesota.