Last year we had the most amazing spider visit our backyard. On day as I went outside, just as the sun started to go down, I saw a spider hanging from her web off of one of the limbs of our huge oak tree. I found this curious since it was a rather long drop from the tree limb. I just thought she was an interesting spider and didn't think much of her until I went back out again one hour later. I was shocked to find that this spider had created the biggest spider web I had ever seen! It was so detailed! I stood in amazement at how this reletively small spider could create such a beautiful web.
Every night we would go out and watch her make her trap. When she was done, she granted us the privilege of seeing, first-hand, this masterpiece. We all stood in awe at the beauty of it! After a week of this we never saw her again. I guess she thought we had seen enough or she just simply got tired of us watching her.
I wanted to share these pictures in honor of our finishing up our "free reading" of Charlotte's Web. I actually had forgotten all about this, until one of the kids recently reminded me of our own Charlotte that had gifted us with her own masterpiece of web art. I like to call it "What a website!"
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