Daffodil Spider

I was amazed to see this spider hanging out at the base of a trumpet of a daffodil. Craazy! It did not seem interested in flies , I can only assume it was thinking existential thoughts and needed a temple like place to do so.
The pond was full of leaves/rotting apples/weed so I cleared half of it out leaving the other half as refuge. I could not believe the numbers of dragonfly larvae I saw crawling out of the weed and heading back to the pond - yeuch.