THE SPIDER’S TRAP

It’s that time of year, where you’ll be walking in the woods or along a pond’s edge, when you come across a treasure trove of spiderwebs. Nearly every tree and shrub are dressed in gossamer woven webs of silk. The best time to find the spider’s trap is just after a spell of fog.

SPIDER WORLD

It’s a spider’s world and we are merely guests.

Spider's Webs ©Kim Smith 2015

There are approximately several thousand spiders for every one human!

WEB WEAVERS SEASON IS UNDERWAY

Spider Web Niles Pond ©Kim Smith 2015If you look closely, you can see the the spider repairing its web in the lower right corner and if you look even more closely to the opposite lower left corner, you can see the reflection of the web in the pond water.

Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave

Photos from a foggy morning walk along the berm between Niles Pond and Brace Cove this morning.

Spider's Web Niles pond -2 ©Kim Smith 2014

The shoreline draped in gossamer nets–the world according to spiders.

Spider's Web Niles pond -3 ©Kim Smith 2014

Spider's Web Niles pond -4 ©Kim Smith 2014

Spider's Web Niles Pond Gloucester ©Kim Smith 2014JPGSong Sparrow Niles Pond Gloucester ©Kim Smith 2014Song Sparrow

Rosa rugosa Nile pond ©Kim Smith 2014

Rosa rugosa

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Welcome First Day of Autumn!

And welcome, too, gardens of dissipating beauty.

Sunflower and Web © Kim Smith 2013Sunflower and Spider’s Web