The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Silk!  After hearing about Eric's dragonfly and butterfly observations last night, I was scanning the San Francisco Chronicle headl...

This morning Eric called me over to point out a nice-looking spider web lit up by the sun in the backyard.  It was a special one.  Here are ...

This morning, out of the corner of my eye, I spotted a beautiful spider web in our backyard.  I ran out to take a few photos before leaving ...

I wandered into the backyard again this morning to look for spider web strands.  Below are a few close-ups from 29 June 2019. Strand with ...

If you've been reading this blog for the last few years, you might remember previous posts about color patterns in spider web silk.  Sin...

Last year I took a series of close-up photographs of spider webs.  Since the first images were around last year's summer solstice...

Well, I didn't have a chance to take any pictures today, but here are a couple more spider silk photos from yesterday.  Sometimes it...

  A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I might not be sharing photographs of spider web threads for a while (see " Shifting s...

This might be the last post about colors and spider silk (at least for a while).  The point where the sun rises along the eastern horizon ha...

Next up in the spider web series!  Here are some highlights from the past week of trying to photograph the diversity of colors created by si...

I've continued to photograph spider web strands in our backyard.  I'm so taken by this phenomenon and the amazing color combinations...