Tuesday 15 January 2013

Nature's Oddities

Everyone knows that Nature is a strange and wonderful thing, but one of the strangest things I've seen in a long time popped up on one of my recent walks whilst trying to miss the rain - yes, its still raining !

Trudging along a muddy track near home I noticed that one of the banks appeared to have a white, frosty-looking covering, but only on part of it. 


Very strange, and even though we've had some overnight frosts recently, I just couldn't understand why just part of the bank ?  Now look closer....


Layers and layers of spiders' webs covering the bank for several metres - can you imagine how long it took to create this ?  As we have no monster spiders in this part of the world and the ones you normally see outside are not a lot bigger than a money spider, this is quite a an achievement in my book !

NB - The big, black, hairy spiders prefer to be inside terrorising humans :-)

2 comments:

Sew Create It - Jane said...

Wow what a strange effect...looks like cotton wool.

Hope you are keeping warm and dry...it is freezing here!!

Lin said...

What a stunning picture! Such beautiful colours. Are you going to use it for a design?