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Araneus gemma
Spotted on Sep 21, 2012
Submitted on Dec 3, 2012
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Welcome to Project Noah, Evelyn! This beautiful spider appears to be an Orbweaver of some type. Wolf spiders (as per the description in your post) do not build webs like this.
Your spider most resembles something from Family Araneidae, possibly Genus Araneus.
Here are a couple of links to Bugguide that might help:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1972/bgpag...
http://bugguide.net/node/view/1977/bgpag...