Every morning, my friend Sandra goes out her front door to water her plants on the front stoop. She has flowers in hanging pots in addition to others on the stairs and landing. Over night, spiders make a web from one hanging pot to the other side of the door and every morning she must brush away the web in order to get out the door. This has happened every day all summer. The spiders have been hard working.
This week one night, the rains came. A lovely gentle rain. By morning, every spider web was covered with tiny droplets of water. Normally, I could not see the spider webs but now I could see them everywhere. Beside the pond close to the driveway sits two Alberta Spruce trees. They sit three feet apart with flowers between them. A huge web had been made that covered the whole area between the two trees, which are four feet tall. Every part of the huge web was covered with the glistening drops of water. It was an amazing sight.
My main question is how the spider puts the line from the top of the tree to the other? Actually, with close inspection, four lines went from one side to the other before the branches ran down to form the typical circular web. It was a marvel of engineering. When Rita and I left to pick up the truck, we spotted the beautiful web but when we returned from our errands, the droplets had gone and we could no longer see their beauty. But for a short time, we were able to see all the hard work done by the spiders, thanks to the water droplets clinging to the webs.
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