Friday, May 22, 2009

My Own Charlotte


Wednesday night I was outside
and my face ran into a cobweb that I couldn't see.

It felt like a big one.

All I could think about was
that the spider was on me!

I turned the outside light on and this is what I found:

She is so cute inside the agapanthus!
(you should click on that picture to see just how cute she is)

I named her Charlotte.

I knew she would be remaking her web
the next night and was determined to get her picture.

So I watched and waited.

And waited and watched.

She didn't like the flash very much
and kept running back to the safety of her flower.

Inside I would go to wait for her to come back
out of the flower and start building again.

I eventually figured this was going to
be a long process and decided to go to bed.

When I left her she was still spinning her web,
I'm sure thinking of all the glorious food she
would be able to catch once she finished.

This is what I woke up to in the morning:

"RADIANT"

I wonder how long it took her to create that?

And this picture, while it isn't the greatest
of quality, shows you where she built her web:

Right smack dab in the middle of the walkway to the barn.

The perfect place for someone to walk right into it :)

11 comments:

  1. All the flashing at night, the neighbors thinks she is nuts!

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  2. my word...that new camera and your determination paid off.....some pig...i mean spider. WOW.

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  3. will you please teach me how to sign up so i dont have to be anonymous! M

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  4. I sent you facebook mail Momma :)

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  5. Charlotte re-spun her web tonight. I think it took her somewhere around 2 hours. It's a rainy evening here though, so not sure how long it will be up.

    I read up on spiders today...did you know they eat their web daily to recoup some of the energy used in spinning. The silk proteins are thus recycled :)

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  6. Otis, thank you for sharing Charlotte and her web with us. Those pictures are amazing, you and the camera are a good fit!

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  7. Wow, you have a lot of patience to stay up and wait for Charlotte to spin her web. The end product really is amazing. I'm too much of a bug squisher to stay up late to see something like this unfold. Thanks for sharing your patience and pictures with the rest of us.

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  8. Hi Tiff :) Thanks for stopping by! She's still out there building her web everyday..

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  9. k the spider totally freaks me out!!!! But the one of it in the flower is beautiful!!!

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  10. hahha, she was actually about the size of my pinkie nail. She's gone now...so you can come visit :)

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