Amazing Spider Web

If there's one animal I dislike more than snakes, it's spiders.  I've always been afraid of them, but especially since I was 12 years old and woke up one morning with one crawling across my face.  Fun.

But this post is about a spider I didn't actually see; instead I saw its web, and what a magnificent creation it was, too!  I'm really not sure of the exact spider it was.  Part of me wonders if it isn't a spider web at all, but some kind of caterpillar cocoon.