Monday, September 7, 2009

spiderwebs in the meadow

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The vocabulary of spiderwebs:

Silk. Gossamer. Ballooning. Dragline. Anchor. Spiral. Funnel. Orb. Dome.

And on dewy September mornings: Beadwork. Rainbow. Jewel. Necklace.






























From wiki: "The tensile strength of spider silk is greater than the same weight of steel and has much greater elasticity."

Last spring I found a forsythia petal swinging by a gossamer strand in the middle of the orchard far away from its anchor:



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