It’s 4:00 AM! Do you know where your arachnids are? This one built its web on the gate at the irrigation ditch, which I discovered when I went out to turn in the water at four this morning. The web was destroyed when I lowered the gate to dam the water. With each turn of the wheel, the web slowly collapsed until it disappeared once the gate was down. The poor spider held on till the last minute then dropped on a thread toward the water. I grabbed its thread and pulled the spider back onto the wheel —then I headed back to the house in the muted light of an overcast moon.



These are all great, but I really love the backlit grass – must be because fall is so close.
Fall is definitely in the air down here.
“the muted light of an overcast moon,” whoa…nice – and BTW, good job saving the little spider!!
I can pull them out every now and then!
Ii’s neat that you look out for the hard-working spiders.
The photo of the spider web is so perfect. Congratulations on that one. I love the Hot Cocoa pic – the colors are unique.