I guess it wasn't beautiful in the traditional sense, but it was some sort of beauty. I was at peace with a world I'm constantly fighting with otherwise. And I'm normally terrified of spiders...
But I saw this spider no bigger than a pin head with legs and I got very close to him on the tree branch and I tried to let the kid next to me in on it, because I was damn amazed and he looked, squinted, looked at me wierd, and flung the branch into the air.
I could have killed him.