@Robecology
The web looks similar but I'm up in Canada on the east coast. It's a common spider in Nova Scotia. Here is a better look and I assume it made this web.

@flower_nut My "free" apple download says it's an "Angulate Orbweaver"....Araneus species...

Barn spider
DescriptionAraneus cavaticus, commonly known as the barn spider, is a common orb-weaver spider native to North America. They are around three-quarters of an inch in length and are usually yellow and brown in color. They often construct their webs in wooden human structures, hence their common name. Wikipedia
Scientific name: Araneus cavaticus

@Robecology
Thank you! The garden and forest around here are full of barn spiders. The garden also has many crab spiders.

@flower_nut GREAT shot of a crab spider devouring a bee! Wow!

@Heidi68
Very good. Here are the answers to what the flowers are. I left the spider alone btw.
1-Gentian
2-Japanese Iris(lake effect)
3-Daylily(candy cane dreams)
4-Coneflower(hot papaya)
5-Dahlia(kasasagi)
6-Coneflower(double scoop™ bubble gum)
7-Rudbeckia
8-Oriental lily(stargazer) with Daylily(radiation biohazard)
9-Garden spider on a Dahlia(glenbank twinkle)
10-Phlox (divaricata)

@Heidi68
I mixed up the last two just switch them around, sorry.

@FrayedBear
Thanks. I didn't see the bird eat it and there are many more to fill its spot.

@flower_nut So long as they do not bite!

@FrayedBear
I don't think the barn spider is harmful just hairy and to some degree scary. They have 100s of babies that cluster together. If you disturb the cluster of spiders they scatter and eventually all cluster back together again.

@flower_nut I have sometimes encountered similar situations here. The other is when they are all attached to the parent's body ready to find new rest when sufficiently grown.
Some of ours here in Australia can be dangerously & painfully venemous. But in 40+ years I have only had one bite when handling a rotting trunk in the yard and never had need for anti venene and hope that I never do require it.

@FrayedBear
Spiders keep to themselves but ants take over the garden. With every third rock in my garden, there is an ants nest under it. When planting new plants sometimes ants will build a nest in the roots and remove the soil around them causing the plant to die. I've lost several plants due to ants.

@flower_nut don't think that I've ever encountered that.