what early mornings bring....

This day started earlier than usual... 6 am... auch :)

This means that our morning walk after breakfast was early too but I don't regret leaving the house.

It was a misty morning and I decided to take my camera.  Good call!!

these are the results of a really nice morning...

It all began when I noticed that the newly installed fence on a pasture near our home was covered in tiny threads...

the entire fence (+ 10 meters long, min 2 meters high)!!

This is either a huge spider nest or one busy spider!! 

Then our buddy wanted to 'swim'... mist drifted over the surface of the tiny basin in the woods, but we couldn't stay too long because the little one was eager to go in too...

noooo, too cold!!!

Autumn shows its colours

The great beech tree... sees all....passes no judgement...

One of my favorite places here... look at all these lovely trees... 

My two favorites under my favorite tree... precious photo

Since the spider fence, my eyes were on the lookout for some more...et voilà...

Spiders too like plants in their homes

These last two pictures absolutely made my day... little pearls of dew on the web and the spider, patiently waiting in her tiny shelter...

A Poem is a spider web

Spun with words of wonder

Woven lace held in place

By whispers made of thunder

~Charles Ghigna~

candy stripe lavender

 

 

 

The candy stripe spider (Enoplognatha ovata) on a lavender sprig



 

 

 

I wonder if spiders get the same soothing effect lavender gives me when I smell its wonderful perfume...

 

 

 

 

 

'My dear, have some lavender,

or you'd best have a thimble full of wine

your spirits are quite down...'

~John O'Keeffe, A Beggar on Horseback ~

 

 

 

Itsy Bitsy

 

Welcome home!

 

 

 

I've been waiting forever it seems

 

 

 

Right here so you could see me when you unlocked the door

 

 

 

 

The beetles and flies at the sight of him fled,

And even the birds were afraid.

He had two great nippers, and eight wicked eyes;

How he ran and what leaps he made !

 

 

I and all who lived in the garden knew

That terrible spider's lair,

And told their little ones, under their breath:

'O never, O never go there!'

 

 

~ Passage from 'Spider and Wasp' by A. Vine Hall ~

 

 

 

 



Spiders

'Look beyond your fears, observe her from a safe distance to see her dancing in the wind on her web... she is a dream weaver...'

(Presley Love)

 

Crab Spider (Misumena vatia)

 

 

Species of Harvestman (Leiobunum rotundum)

 

 

 Nursery Web Spider (Pisaura mirabilis)

 

 

I need a little help with this one, I can't seem to find its name...

 

 

 

'I eat anything that gets caught in my web. I have to live, don't I?'

(E.B. White, Charlotte's web)