Autumn Arachnid

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As the first autumn arachnid predator wrapped prey for its larder in the warm morning sunshine, further potential sustenance foraged for their own food stores or simply soaked up the sun. The skies clouded over soon after midday and rain fell all afternoon.

This evening, leaving enough for Elizabeth, who would be home a little later, Jackie and I dined on her perfect pork paprika, tasty savoury rice, crunchy carrots, and tender green beans. The Culinary Queen drank Hoegaarden and I drank Patrick Chodot Fleurie 2016.

 

47 comments

  1. Cool buggy photos, Derrick! We never know who is living (or lurking) in the flowers! πŸ˜€
    You have a great eye and a good patience to find the little creatures!
    Glad you got some rain. All of the creatures, including us human-beans, need the rain.
    HUGS!!! to you and The Gals! πŸ™‚

  2. Excellent post, Derrick. Great minds think alike – I have been assembling my own little homage to the backyard bugs.

  3. A rather lyrical post. The lone poetic paragraph and the concluding coda are as beautiful as blossoms in the garden of an industrious couple in New Forest.

  4. Great details! Spiders are fascinating with their web designs. It often amazes me how strong and resilient the webs can be, even after I’ve walked through them, they rebuild.

    1. I have a ‘pet’ spider in my wing mirror on the car, she comes everywhere with us on our trips, sadly her web is often broken by high winds and branches from the hedgerows, but every morning it is back good as new! Amazing.

  5. I love to see those spiders–outside. This one reminds me of the one that grabbed Frodo and wrapped him up for eating. Alas, he escaped. What is that flower on the lower left of your photo collage. I have them and don’t know what they are (I am so ignorant of many blooms).

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