Sun light and spider webs

The Sun is going south for the winter.  

Friday morning was a very nice one for a walk.  The humidity has dropped and the temperature which was around 70 was very comfortable.  The sun light in the morning is beginning to take a noticeable tilt in a southerly direction so the entire aspect of the country side is changing.  Beside taking the dog for a walk one of the big reasons I walk is that I like to see the daily changes as the season progresses.   This time of the year is second only to spring in the rapidity of change that can happen each day.  The dog and I walked down to the west end of the dirt road and on our way back I noticed an abandoned web from a Golden Orb spider.

Take a close look at this web. 

  I was able to get a good look at it close up as well as take a tug on it to test it's strength.  It is about the thickness of a piece of sewing thread but much more flexible.  It has a decided yellow cast to it as well.   A few days ago this web was supporting a spider and it's web which was stretched across about 20 feet. That spider is gone now.  I don't know what happened to it.  We walked on back to the house and the dog was way out ahead as he usually is, when I took a nice photo of the sun coming through the trees.  This photo is about as close as I have ever gotten to capturing what this scene actually looks like. The red dirt road traveling off into the distance is always a pleasant site to me.  I hope you like as well.  Thanks for reading my blog today.  Bye.