Making Hay
The neighbor who cuts hay from our pasture stopped by over the weekend, hat-in-hand apologetic that the field is so rank and past due for cutting by more than a month. He's never gone til August without getting it done before.
"'course, we just haven't had any dry weather there, and sure as I'd get everything ready and all, it'd come a rain when we wasn't suppose to get a drop there." He's lean as a garden rake and works harder and longer than what's good for him. "I believe it was 82 hours o'work week before last there, and over 90, last."
I expected no apologies, knowing he was up to his hipwaders cutting his bosses hay first, what few chances there were to cut and bale. But I sure will be glad when we can walk the pasture again. And maybe more than that, it's been hard to get those few more clean, uncluttered spiderweb pictures I wanted with the field so overgrown.
The web image above is an "inverted" version I was tinkering with. See the original and one more new web image--the last two at the end of the Webs Gallery.
Comments
Sweet--it's got kind of a "cartoon" style to it.
Posted by: Ana | July 26, 2004 9:58 AM
I love the effect! Now, you've inspired me to try it.
Posted by: Terry | July 26, 2004 2:09 PM
I love the photo- and the originals too.
The other night I was down at our pond house, and noticed that an opportunistic spider had built a web between two spotlights, guaranteeing him or her an excess of food in the form of the moths flocking to the light.
What puzzled me was that this spider did not seem interested in the multitude of insects fluttering in its web. It was sitting on the edge of the light, totally still, with two long front legs stuck out in from of it.
Suddenly, a little moth flew close to the light, and the spider lunged out with those two legs, grabbed it from midair, and brought dinner straight to its mouth.
I was awestruck. I had never seen a spider perform such a feat. Didn't know they could, frankly. Any idea what it might be? It was straw colored, with a long body approx the size and shape of a wasp, and very long legs.
Posted by: Mara | July 26, 2004 4:10 PM