Ehehee I just remembered I saw a huge round orb weaver on my way home, there was a strong white wiry line attached to the main web and I twanged it just for funsies and she came out to have a look and she was so beautiful and round.
I took a few pictures and accidentally touched her while trying to show my hand for scale and was able to feel her chonky abdomen for a moment which spiders never let me do (but I always secretly want to). She was slightly spooked but only enough to slowly amble away rather than plummet out of sight.
Makes me smile remembering it 
An out of focus version of the previous image but with a more complete view of the abdomen patterning. Or maybe it鈥檚 just in soft focus because she鈥檚 a supermodel
Close up of the abdomen showing the patterns, on the side are 4 dark brown stripes and on the back is a triangular wiggly line with a white line made of dotted and dashed white blobs and at the corners of the triangle is a pronounced bump with a horizontal white line through it
A non-macro shot with my fingers below her for scale. Her whole body including legs is as long as three of my fingertips side by side and her abdomen makes up half of that. She is hanging upside down from her web, legs clinging onto the thick white threads that anchor the web
Closeup of a big orb weaver spider with a huge abdomen much larger than the rest of her and protruding way above her waist. She is brown and striped and resembling a tortoiseshell pattern. All over her legs and abdomen are evenly spaced spiny hairs and because she鈥檚 so large a fine coat of thinner, shorter hairs is visible between them, she looks like she鈥檇 feel velvety