Cobwebs

Sometimes they are mental.

But this time of year (at least in Illinois when I was growing up) any open field with tall plants (milkweed, goldenrod) will have spiderwebs strung between plants. It was always a ‘danger’ to walk into one if you weren’t looking. I’m not crazy about spiders, but since they do good for the environment I don’t like to screw up their webs either. By fall the spiders have grown into the good sized arachnids with big webs.

The house my father built, when I was a toddler and we lived in until I was in sixth grade, was set into the side of a hill. The main floor exited onto Walnut Drive at street level and the basement level at the back on to an alley .

Having planned ahead, my father installed a yard light in the peak of the back of the house. That put it at 2 1/2+ stories above the backyard. Just as well, because it was inevitable for some spider to find this perfect set up for a web. The yard light drew moths and other flying things and no one was likely to come along and bump into or knock down the web way up there in the air. Honestly how did the spiders ever find the location in the first place?

My cobwebs now are of the ‘manmade’ variety. I saw the idea a few years back, before we had moved back to Tulsa. I kept it in mind, because I knew I had the perfect porch for spinning a gigantic cobweb for the Halloween season. It is done with cup hooks and bulky, white, CHEAP yarn.

So here is MY start to Halloween. Just have to find the ‘fake’ spider I stored away in the basement and it will be finished.

(The opening image is not mine. But it is just too cool not to use.)