Spider
Strand by Strand
her world closes in
By her own design
she hangs by a thread
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Strand by Strand
her world closes in
By her own design
she hangs by a thread
Comments
Excellent shot!
Posted by: Karen | October 4, 2006 11:12 AM
I see you are getting a head start on Halloween decorations! Great web and words along with it, I take it this is at the Green Cafe?
Posted by: Susan | October 4, 2006 11:58 AM
Yes, it's a sign of the times in the green cafe!
Posted by: colleen | October 4, 2006 12:02 PM
love the last two posts and photos. i am usually content living in town, except when i see photos like your green cafe. no quiet, private corner on our busy block. we have two great porches, but there are always neighbors and kids on them. good most times- but sometimes i just want to sit outside in my pajamas and drink coffee in peace.
Posted by: amy f. | October 4, 2006 12:20 PM
"There are four things which are little upon the earth but they are very wise:
The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks;
The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands,
The spider takes hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces".
Posted by: Stuart Barden | October 4, 2006 12:23 PM
That spider was an industrious little one, wasn't she? I love this picture.
Posted by: kenju | October 4, 2006 2:59 PM
It is a cool picture, but it looks like an old fan.
Posted by: Sherry | October 4, 2006 4:49 PM
nice picture and poem!
Posted by: sage | October 4, 2006 8:15 PM
wow, what a picture and how amazing nature is.
Posted by: Kathy | October 4, 2006 8:24 PM
Great photo and once again, very appropriate words to accompany the picture. Well done!
Posted by: Terri | October 4, 2006 8:35 PM
This is the best web I've seen. That spider needs a reward.... perhaps a fly. The spiders here haven't really gotten into their intense mode yet. The fibers are still pretty far apart.
Posted by: srp | October 4, 2006 9:21 PM
We all get caught in our "home spun webs" at times and feel "stranded" and hangin' by a thread!
Posted by: ruth | October 4, 2006 10:10 PM
That is an amazing picture Colleen....I don't think I have ever seen such an intricate close stranded web, ever! Do you know what spider spins this incredible wewb? And to be able to see it so clearly with your camera....Like I said...It Is Amazing, and Beautiful, Too!
Posted by: OldOldLady Of The Hills | October 5, 2006 5:21 AM
I took the photo a week or so ago. The web is gone now! That's another whole aspect of the weaving, that it's so elaborate but so temporary too. I think the rain took it down.
Posted by: colleen | October 5, 2006 9:08 AM
Great moment. Sunlight caught by a thread.
Posted by: Pearl | October 5, 2006 9:17 AM
Wow, that spider must've had some extra shots of caffeine! what a well woven web! nice shot, too :-)
Posted by: Janet | October 5, 2006 4:52 PM
One of the best web's I've seen....like Charlotte.
Excellent photo, excellent poem.
Posted by: Deana | October 5, 2006 6:13 PM
Oh, I love that photo. I've tried to photograph webs but haven't succeeded...yet.
Posted by: Beverly | October 6, 2006 1:50 PM
Fabulous silk-smithing and wordsmithing alike!
Posted by: Elissa | October 7, 2006 10:15 PM