This is I believe a Orchard Spider (Leucage venusta), hanging from the bottom of its web and waiting for a meal. From the woods near Madisonville, across the lake from New Orleans.
This was a mushroom growing from the bark of a Pine tree at my brother-in-law's house across the lake from New Orleans. The black spots are bugs burrowed up in the folds of the mushroom. It was about eye-level above the ground.
