8th Webolution

Last night as I was walking through to the house, I met a spider in my face. The light as glowing from within and illuminating the web from behind. My eyes happened to glance on a spider suspended between the branches, perched on no more than a shimmer of light (like the rounded streaking on a newly polished car, you catch it out the corner of your eye, but never sure if the dancing light is really there).

It wasn't a proper web yet, only the "spokes" were in place. Undeterred by my breathing, I patiently watched as he completed the eight revolution of the spiral in two minutes flat, climbing in what seemed to be the clockwise direction. I soon realised the illusion, as he was completely in silhouette it only appeared to be that way, and he was, in fact, moving counter-clockwise.

And yes, he had his breakfast of flies on toast out there this morning.

Speaking of webs... the other day I was trying to write a word starting with "web" but all that would come out of the pen was www. So I tried again, and got ww out before I scrubbed it out to start again, again, slowly! And this time I managed it; I've never been so proud (well, Ok. I have).