Sunday, January 23

Spiders (fair warning) ...

... I'm not spider phobic.
Spider irritated at times, spider shocked on the odd occasion, but not generally frightened of our eight-legged friends.
It's been a monster year for the Brown-Mouse Long-Thin-Backyard spider crop this year. The buggers are everywhere. This may help explain why bees are so thin on the ground. Which, in turn, has me coming over all conflicted.Two of our favourites this year are big old garden orb weavers.One Missy weaves her web right outside the back door, just above the railing. Accordingly, we smash into her web, face first, quite a lot. We call her the human-web weaver.Her sister, locates her web perfectly placed to nab you, still sleep befuddled, as you turn to walk out into the garden at the bottom of the back stairs. She catches us more often than the other one. Lucky for us, the spider usually retires to a little spot off web, as it were, when the sun comes out. Often a carefully curled leaf, right near one of her anchor lines. So, although you may walk into the web, there's little fear you have a spider IN YOUR HAIR! They come out at night though. And Rupert's 'night portrait' setting catches them beautifully. I'm actually quite pleased with some of these night shots. It looks like the spiders are dancing on the night sky.

6 comments:

Zoomie said...

There's a certain spider that spins a thread across the path to Poop Heaven, where Cora and I go each morning. Gets me across the nose every time. I never learn, and neither does Spidey.

Zoomie said...

Think what stories she must tell about the one that got away!

cookiecrumb said...

Oh, YOU are dancing on the night sky!
xx

e said...

Great shots, gorgeous spiders. Well done Rupert!

Ms Brown Mouse said...

Zoomie, thank goodness was are all the one that got away, I've seen what spiders do to the caught things *shudders*
Cookie, well, I do have the black velvet dancing slippers :)
E, hairy grapes with legs, but beautiful in their own way.

Sue said...

Beautiful photos!! Well done!

Sue x