Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

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

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