New PICS !
The first photo I posted was a cell-phone shot of her in her web and maybe not a very good picture for identification. Before I let her go I photographed her in better detail.
This large spider (head-abdomen length about 1.9 cm) built a large funnel web in my furnace closet made out of very strong webbing. I moved her to a good place outside.
Also-I was able to actually measure her. I overestimated in my first post.
Growing epiphytically on a dead branch