Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: Araneidae

Photographed at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on 20 August 2011. A few holes, but, for the most part, a beautifully-made web. Such a clever little spider : )

I did darken this photo so that the web stood out more than in the original photo : ) Thanks so much, Aileen, for pointing out this beautiful spider's web yesterday, when we were botanizing the forest at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park. I was concentrating on the backlit web, so didn't think of walking around to the other side so that I could get a photo of the topside of the spider. Today, I HAVE to make myself get a few things done in the house, ready for when my 12 boxes of sentimental items that belonged to my brother and my parents (and me) arrive from England. They are supposed to be in Calgary by the end of August, so I've almost run out of time to do more clearing of my basement to make room, and I absolutely have to do some very, very, very long-overdue cleaning this week before I dare let anyone into my place, lol. Every time I am out botanizing some location in or around the city, I can't help but think how sad it is that so many women are at home, vacuuming and keeping their homes spotless. My theory on that is that life is so short and there is so much amazing beauty out there for us to enjoy, why stay home and miss it all? I know which I would rather do, any day - which is why I have no choice but to plug in my poor, extremely neglected vacuum cleaner this week before the moving/delivery people arrive, ha. I hate the thought of having to disturb all the little dust bunnies - you know me, I love little creatures, whether wild or domesticated. Under the bed seems to be a common location to find dust bunnies, but mine are so clever, they climb on everything and try to hide there, ha. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_web

A closer view of the amazingly beautiful spider web that we saw when we were on a hike at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on August 20th.

We saw this Spider on a walk this morning, in South Glenmore Park.

I'm sure that this Orb Weaver spider was only small, but this is the size I remember it as! At least! They build spiral, wheel-shaped webs.