Friday morning, when I looked out the window around 7 AM, the sun was shining. When I got up around 8:30 and pulled the curtain open, I was in for a surprise: a white mist had descended. I stepped out onto the front porch and there a huge spider’s web was suspended from the front railing across the porch for about three feet. I tried to take a photo but there wasn’t enough contrast to highlight the gossamer web. Then came the biggest surprise: I stepped out into the front yard and there, a multitude of webs were suspended from the stalks of chicory plants. I have never seen anything like this!
I tried to capture the event using my humble Iphone camera and wrote a haiku:
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in morning mist
artisans weave
silken nets
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My experience fits into the Daily Post Photo Challenge: Rare, an invitation to post ‘something that stands out from the everyday’.
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I can see that is a beautiful spider web.
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Yes and there were so many of them all over the yard!
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So magical and beautiful haiku too Janet!
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Thank you. The morning mist and so many webs did seem magical.
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Beautiful haiku. I love spider webs. Delicate, intricate, intoxicating works of art.
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Thank you. I agree they are beautiful and it’s a treat to encounter them in an open display.
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Those are some wickedly-beautiful photos and the Haiku..just as magnificent as the captured, living moment.
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Thank you 🙂
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Misty and magical!! Lovely spiderwebs 🙂
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I’m glad you enjoyed them 🙂 They were magical.
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Seems like that haiku was waiting for you Janice.
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They do tend to lurk 🙂
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Wow! Those webs would not be fun to walk into. 🙂
Lovely haiku.
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Yes that could be sticky if you were brushing by in the dark 🙂
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Beautiful pictures and a lovely haiku to match it 🙂
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Thank you:)
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You are welcome 🙂
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spiders like birds such great bug eaters! 🙂
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Amazing photos! You really have captured the beauty of the spider. Their expertise is brought to the forefront of my thoughts. I do not think any human could duplicate the beauty of the web. And, how lucky you are to live in such a rural area and be privy to such wonderful feats of nature. Well done!!!!
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Amazing photos. It brings the abilities of the spider to the forefront of my mind, And, how lucky you are to live in such a rural area to be privy to the wonderful abilities of the spider. Although I get the creeps from spiders for some unknown reason. I do admire their beauty as well. Kudos!!!!
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Thank you. The webs are nice to look at –preferably outside:) they are sticky if you come into contact. I’ve been thinking that there are probably more webs about than I realized until that morning when they were visible in the mist.
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