Thursday, June 6, 2013

jeweled weavings


The spider is one of my totems and courtesy of Spider Woman, the Navaho goddess, I learned a very valuable lesson some years ago.


When we first looked at the country house that June, there were huge webs all over the property with golden orb weavers on them. I had recently completed the piece Boxed Lunch which featured a golden orb weaver so we took it as a sign and bought the place.

The following year we had a few of the giant webs and golden orb weavers and after that, none. I guess there is too much activity around here now for them and so they build their webs elsewhere.

However, we have many other spiders that decorate the place with their weavings. They were very busy last night as this morning there were webs all over the yard glistening with dew.













13 comments:

  1. one of the webs looks like a giant parasol !!
    how incredible

    beautiful photos, you really captured the details

    Hope called me SpiderNana the other day while we were playing super heroes in the yard :)

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  2. Fabulous! Beautiful! Awe-inspiring!
    Great pics!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  3. Wow those are gorgeous! Right now I'm looking at a spider strand that runs from the ceiling to the top of my cube in my office. It's not the same AT ALL.

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  4. I love those early morning strolls on the grounds. We have lots of webs here, too. In the most unlikely places ....... like on the Dr. Pepper machine, over the dispenser!

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  5. Fascinating! Easy, though, one of those webs could trap an elephant.

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  6. really beautiful - as long as i see the webs first. :)

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  7. Lovely on a wet, dewy morning. Not so lovely to walk through one of the guy wires.

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  8. Spider webs are magical things: so gorgeous and unbelievably strong. Hard to photograph too, but you have some great shots here.

    I feel sure I have totems, but I don't know what they are.

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  9. Wow, I love the spider box! Beautiful!

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  10. Spiders scare the living daylights out of me - I'm not fond of any of the arachnids, but oh their webs are magical.

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  11. I LOVE the box. I might have to treat myself to something of yours... with a frog, or skull, or both ;-)

    The 5th web is beyond impressive.

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  12. Your web photography is wonderful. I suspect that spiders are one of my totems also... mostly because I fear them and because web design (world wide web, that is) intrigues yet eludes me.

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  13. I love these shots Ellen - I don't mind spiders webs but it's annoying running into them!

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