Some spiders can be creepy, but others are quite beautiful, like this one that I photographed earlier this month at my local marshland park. I am catching up a bit on posting photos from this month that I really liked and thought it might be good to post a spider image on Halloween night. I have not yet been able to identify this spider, but noted that it did not have a web and seemed to be lying in wait for prey on the long leaf of this plant. I’d welcome assistance in identifying the species of spider,
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Mike Powell 
I usually end up at bugguide.net for an ID of spiders. There seems to be a lot of them that look alike.
I think you may have found a furrow spider, Mike. I’ve been trying to find time to help with an ID. Here’s where I found it: http://www.cirrusimage.com/spider.htm.
Thanks, Gary. I was initially confused about whether or not it was an orbweaver spider, because there was no web that I could see. Still, the spider looks a lot like the image for which you provided the link.