This morning is one of those misty damp autumnal mornings that we seemed to miss out on last year. There is a fine drizzle in the air the sort that makes you quite wet before you realise it. As I was putting fresh food out for the birds the stillness was quite remarkable, the only sound the odd falling leaf. But more remarkable were the amount of cobwebs around the garden sparkling in the water they have captured.
The rosemary is obviously a favourite of the spiders as it looks like someone has attacked it with the spray on cobweb stuff that is popular around Halloween. The more I looked the more cobwebs I saw, they are everywhere. In my pots, some which are overdue for emptying, making elaborate networks across corners of the patio.
I was reminded of Miss Haversham in Dickens’ Great Expectations and the wedding feast which has laid untouched for decades all covered in cobwebs. With the low-lying mist that is enveloping the top of the garden there is quite an atmosphere which I don’t feel compelled to spoil. So the work on the bog garden will wait as will the raised bed that we planned to install at the allotment and I think instead I will spend the day pottering around the house maybe with a bit of baking thrown in for fun.
Yikes ! Most gloomy and grey here this morning but not a single atmospheric cobweb in sight. I am trying to psyche myself to do some tidying up in the greenhouse but failing so far. I think we went straight into winter last year so missed out on these misty and moody mornings. Enjoy pottering
This was a banner year for spiders I think. The webs were everywhere and so noticeably appeared with the wind and rain. The winds decorated the webs with loads of colorful leaves and debris. I was wondering how the spiders felt about that too this summer. Nice captures of the webs as the came into view with the mist.
We have webs much like those all over our garden on misty mornings too… it is a bit too cold right now though for our spiders. Baking sounds like a great idea for a misty day!
One of the things I like about this time of year are the spiders and their webs, you’ve captured that perfectly
i think that the webs look lovely we have lots on the wire fence and on my shed doors at this time of year just brill
I was enjoying the mists and cobwebs of this autumnal day also and wishing I had my camera to capture it! Thank you for sharing these lovely images of undoubtedly the best season!
Isn’t it funny that the creatures in the garden can go unnoticed, until we are suddenly reminded that we are not the only ones there? When I see a bug in the garden, I am always a bit surprised that they are there. I wonder if they’re just as surprised by my presence!
lovely webs I don’t see as many here as when I lived down south though there are plenty of spiders in the garden, I love your weeping rosemary never seen one like that before, I hope you had a good pottering day, Frances
gorgeous spider webs with the mist…when we had similar weather I also saw lots of spider webs…hmmmm???
Truely the image of autumn, spiders webs with mist or frost, always beautiful but somehow always sad too, so miss Haversham is a good allusion. Christina Hope you’ll have time for a foliage post on the 22nd
At the nursery where I work I’m always walking into spiderwebs in the mornings. On my arms, across my face…soft, wispy silk all over my body. It’s really fun to watch them spin a web, if only we were that smart!
Spider webs look beautiful but I always get worried that the spiders who occupy these webs are near by. Wait till winter the cobwebs will look gorgeous when it’s frosty.
A lovely post full of Autumn atmosphere.