This is a tree on Marrowstone Island, holding on.

I took these in March 2023, so this tree may be down now. Or it could still be holding on.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: tangled web.
This is a tree on Marrowstone Island, holding on.

I took these in March 2023, so this tree may be down now. Or it could still be holding on.

For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: tangled web.
It is almost the solstice and there are fewer flowers, but there are still plants that are thriving. The lichens love my old board fence. It was there when I moved in 23 years ago and is weathering and weathering and supporting moss and lichen. Apparently there are still spiders who are building webs in a hopeful manner too.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
Wow! My spider who has set up just outside my desk window and right by the hummingbird feeder, has such a beautiful web! It is raining today and she is hanging out in the center. She did not move when I went out to take pictures.
She is enjoying the flies and bees attracted to the feeder. I watched her wrap two up the other day. Does she stash them somewhere? The web was down the next day and I was afraid she was gone, but she is back up today.

Some people find spiders beastly but I like them. As long as they aren’t the deadly sort and don’t bite me.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: beast.
alone and sad
lurk in your lair
information
rotting there
you say you read
what I write
but not what or when
or day or night
collect words
webbing glue
word mummies
stick to you
you don’t connect
you don’t share
you say you never
never care
your web is touched
vibrates fast
fangs extend
webbing cast
you bite your victim
in spite of screams
anesthetize
steal their dreams
I ask questions
you scold me coldly
I break the web
fight poison boldly
read my words
as you will
I’ve escaped your web
as others will
your web is old
you’re growing slow
your poison fails
your victims know
you end alone
sag sagging web
your victims glad
when you are dead
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A second darker take on the Ragtag Daily Prompt: dream world.
For Cee’s Flower of the Day.
OOOOooooo, maybe I should save this for Halloween, but I am going to use it anyhow.
For Mundane Monday #177, the theme is a photograph of something creature built.
We were leaving in the early morning and P nearly walked into this web. Then we both stopped and took photographs. It’s hard to capture the web in focus! When I moved to another angle, the spider is visible but the web can’t be seen with the white porch as a background. The spider is floating in space.
Link your photograph or send a message and I will list it next week.
Last weeks Mundane Monday #176, the theme was bones.
KL Allendorfer submits a fascinating project with students: Assembling the bones.
For the Daily Prompt: silent.
For the Daily Prompt: nest.
This is for Thursday Doors.
I took this in the Baltimore Aquarium. The escalator down has row after row of different water habitats…but you can see more than one at once….magical and mysterious.
Up very early and in my yard: it turns out that my fence is a help to spiders, setting small webs in each metal square. Each web is a small miracle with the sun shining through it and moving in the breeze.
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