Yesterday I restarted jogging - one loop around our street. Today I did 3 loops and tomorrow I'll jog around the lake - Here is the path with markers every 250 meters. This path also passes my favorite spider places
This morning, I set out with a spray bottle to make morning dew and explore the structure of Mecynogea lemniscata web - Walking to my spider place there were sunbeams - so here they are
Breakfast for M. lemniscata
I sprayed some water (mist) on the web - so that with the morning sun, I would get a good presentation of the structure. Here is the web, a hanging egg sac and hanging breakfast (to the left and down).
Here she is harvesting morning dew
A good view of the complex mesh structure of her web. Note the opening below the egg sac
Another view
In this series - I started with the focal plane close to me and then with each successive image, moved the focal plane closer to the center of the web
Web structure: 2
Web structure: 3
Web structure: 4
Web structure: 5
Sunlit web - you can see the dome structure in the center
A large web: > 1 meter across
One of my early spider encounters - a barn spider, Araneus cavaticus
In her hunting position - at the center of the web
Her small small eyes
Looking from below - nice against the morning sky
Walking to Jay's, I passed some ducks and geese
A goose
Eye of a goose
All sorts of water foul
C. Frank Starmer