Weekly Photo Challenge: Today
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
- Edwin Way Teal
It looks a bit like snow storm today, but the big ‘flakes’ that are blowing in the wind are the fluffy seeds of something – probably a type of poplar tree.
Weighing almost nothing, these seeds dance in the wind until finally they get caught in something. Today, the something was a spider’s web. I can just imagine how unhappy the spider was when it discovered that it no longer had a nearly invisible trap system.
Are some kinds of spiders herbivores? I don’t know, but if they are, then this web will look like a buffet to them.
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Like the quote and photo
Thanks Ruth – your ‘today’ photo is much more scrumptious than mine!
I love it that you can look at things from the spider’s perspective!
I don’t imagine it is easy to be a spider – not in this part of the world, anyhow!
Great capture!
Thanks for stopping by Nelson. You certainly had a very different ‘today’ than I did!
I absolutely love the photo
one of my favorites from the challenge!
Welcome snitch, and thanks. You made a very good choice for this challenge too!
Thanks ^^
I did hear that a lot of spiders are trying the new seed diet. You ave to stay light on your feet when you traipse around on a web all day.
That must be your inner Spider Man talking.
I like the inner Spider man idea. I may have to do a picture…
Beautiful post you have here Margie ,I love it
Thanks Jake. Glad you had time to visit me here in Canada!
Hi,
A great shot, I agree I don’t think the spider will be very happy at all, seems he has a bit of housecleaning to do.
I thought the same thing too, Mags. I read that many types of spiders eat their web once a day, and rebuild the next day. Can you imagine how hard it would be to reclaim this one!
fabulous image…but yes you can’t help feeling a little sorry for the spider
I wish the spider had been around so I could have photographed it too – perhaps it would have had a certain expression of distress on its little face.
Love this photo, so unique! Great quote too.
Thanks composer. As you know, there is always something new to find in the garden.
Spider webs are the best photo op, no two are ever alike. This shot is a great capture.
Spider webs are hard to photograph – they need the right light, or in this case, the right circumstances in order to see them well!
Amazing what gets caught in a spider’s web. We – too – have been experiencing the ‘falling fluff’ (or pollen)????
Yes, it is fluff season here right now. At the cabin, there will be so much accumulation that in places it will look like it has been snowing.
stunning! – rita
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Thanks Rita – a nice compliment coming from a photographer like you!
Fantastic image! I have the same unsightly fluff problem with the dark mohair suit I wear every day… : P
There is a shampoo for that, isn’t there? At least, that is what all the advertisements say!
That spider must be very upset now… all the houskeeping to start over!
Yes – I can just imagine her standing at the edge of the web with a tiny broom!
If she flew away, then she was a spider-witch !