Spider Webs in the Meadow

I’m using spider web photographs taken over the past month as my theme for this Halloween post. It seems like October 2016 was a good month for seeing photo-worthy webs…or maybe I was just out at the right time of day: morning before the dew had time to evaporate. The vegetation isn’t quite as dense this time of year either. Sometimes the web makes a complex pattern made visible by water droplets.

Sometimes the strands of silk are gentle arcs between pieces of vegetation. Are these strands the remains of an elaborate web torn by the wind?

Sometimes there is a web that is missing its middle. In all these cases – I might not have noticed the web with the dew on it.

But here are exceptions. I’m not sure how I spotted this one through the vegetation with water droplets. The light must have been just right.

And what about a very different web. This one was built over a hole in a tree….almost exactly at my eye level!