Day 263
Coffee cup in hand I was walking around the yard to check and see how my Petunias did in the rain we had last night.
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| Dancing in the breeze |
I am pretty amazed at the strength of the spider's web. I watched these 2 leaves dance twist and turn in the breeze.
Trying to photograph a leaf suspended in midair even attached by a spiders silk was challenging enough.
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| In mid air |
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| Hanging by a thread |
The miracle of nature and all its wonder. Just watching these two leaves dance spin in the breeze. I feel lucky to enjoy the beauty and the miracle.
Until the next time!
Jewels
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a Spider's Web." Pablo Picasso
Spiderwebs rarely make a good first impression, however, a spiders silk is up to six times stronger than high-grade steel per weight. Spider silk is a much less dense material, so that a given weight of spider silk is five times as strong as the same weight of steel. The true uniqueness of spider dragline silk is its combination of strength and stretch which is unmatched by any other fiber currently known. The strongest silk belongs to the Darwin's bark spider. Its silk is ten times tougher than Kevlar and at least two times tougher than any other spider's silk. There are lots of reasons to like (or at least tolerate) our arachnid neighbors, but if we cannot make peace with spiders, at least consider making an exception for their silk.
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