Today has been one of those really odd days where nature just seems to throw one amazing thing after another at us!
A few mornings ago, just as I was putting the kids on the bus, a thick, heavy mist rolled in from… nowhere!
It had dawned a drizzly early morning, then cleared quickly, but by 8:00am, if you were in the fog, you wouldn’t have been able to see out of it! There is a saying that Esperance has four seasons in one day – I think today we only managed three!
Then, after a day in front of the computer, updating the farm books, I went to help Anthony get some of the stud cows in for our AI program.
The spiders in the district had gone berserk weaving their webs and leaving them, all over the grass, trees and animals.
This happens quite a few times a year and when the webs start to blow away, they can entangle you, leaving you feeling as if you need to keep wiping your face, long after they’re gone!
It amazes me the things you find when you go looking.
While searching the garden with the kids, looking for odd things, Rochelle and I found this little bloke!
I guess he’s looking for food but what a great place to hide from predatory animals, like birds! I think he’s got it worked out pretty well!
A friend told me these webs are created by ‘Christmas spider’s. I stupidly asked why and with a strange look on her face, said, ‘because they appear at Christmas time, Fleur!’ (thanks Lynda!)
Driving along these webs are really obvious to the naked eye. They’re thick and sticky, with spiders, about a centimetre big and with stunning orange ’stripes’, sitting in the middle of them.
Not just one spider, but in this photo, I lost count after thirty! Some of the webs are about three metres long -—I’m not sure how a spider can crawl that far through thin air, but there you are!
Like I’ve said before, nature is wonderful!
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