Our house has a single east-facing window upstairs. It’s in our bathroom, and though none of the neighboring houses is close enough to create privacy issues, a previous owner fitted the lower sash of the window with textured, translucent glass. Almost every morning, I push open that window to get a look at — and feel of — the day’s weather. Today, I raised the sash to soft swirls of fog, and this gift of dewy gossamer woven by a settler on our roof. The weaver was nowhere to be seen.
When Paul opened the window to the afternoon’s unseasonable warmth, he noticed that the web’s maker was in residence. (She is, I think, a European garden spider (Araneus diadematus), and a cousin of the spiders on Janeen’s rosemary bush.)
Sunday morning update: I did not notice yesterday afternoon how busy a spider she had been. Her web is much more tightly woven this morning:
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I adore the first photo. Spider webs are so beautiful in their simplicity and complexity.
Thanks for the kind words.
Beautiful! She is quite the architect. I like these shots- sometimes it’s hard to capture a web, depending on the light. We have had a large garden spider and web on the courtyard all summer- built and rebuilt. I can’t get to the broom without disturbing it so- a good excuse to not sweep.
Ah, she’s lovely, and I’m glad you found out what kind of spider she is because I was wanting to do that for ‘my’ spiders, and never did. As always, great fotos (the first one especially).