Your photographs are arresting, and this one is exceptional. Are these dill blossoms?
Anne-Mieke
December 8, 2007 at 7:44 am
I’d like to eat this spider, it looks like fine sugarworks. Pretty capture.
marc
December 8, 2007 at 1:18 pm
The delicate architecture of the flower, white light and soft pale body of the spider convey a beauty that belies the indelicacies act at hand. Very nice.
Thank you for all the nice responses. I appreciate the pleasure. The flowers are Queen Anne’s Lace (Dill might be in the same family) and the spider is a Goldenrod Spider, I believe. I have only ever seen one on goldenrod once, and it was yellow with red stripes – they are about a half inch in size. Anne
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Your photographs are arresting, and this one is exceptional. Are these dill blossoms?
I’d like to eat this spider, it looks like fine sugarworks. Pretty capture.
The delicate architecture of the flower, white light and soft pale body of the spider convey a beauty that belies the indelicacies act at hand. Very nice.
Oops. Meant – indelicacies at hand.
Thank you for all the nice responses. I appreciate the pleasure. The flowers are Queen Anne’s Lace (Dill might be in the same family) and the spider is a Goldenrod Spider, I believe. I have only ever seen one on goldenrod once, and it was yellow with red stripes – they are about a half inch in size. Anne
Astonishing photo. The lace shadows on the spider blow me away.