So, how are we all?
This was me earlier just as the sun topped the trees. A new visitor made its home overnight. Generally, spiders are seen as a link between this world and another world, their webs are signs of things to come. I have always considered spiders the ultimate example of walking by faith. They spend exorbitant time and energy constructing a web with the possibility it will never catch anything. It reminds me of a quote:
Between Austria and Italy, there is a section of the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built it because they knew some day, the train would come.
https://luxuriousnomad.com/they-built-train-tracks-before-there-was-a-train/
I remember an old biblical story of the soldier and the spider as a young child, and how it protected the soldier by building a web over the cave right after he entered. The pursuers, believing that their subject couldn't have entered the cave because a spider's web covered it, moved on. Thereafter, many have referred to the tiny spider as a guardian.
https://mygoodtimestories.com/2014/06/02/a-story-of-the-soldier-and-a-spider/
Whatever you believe or have read about these wondrous creatures, know that they serve a great purpose. I am grateful for my new tenant. I didn't see the spider, only its creation.
My zinnias are filled with butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds all day. You truly are the closest to God in a garden!
Hoi hoi
By way of introduction:
I am an Amsterdam guy, what with love, children (and bringing ‘em up decently) and even more love, reclaimed my life including the love, and took on a allotment garden.
12.5 by 20.0 metres, which is huge by our standards.
There are greens and vegetables, we only keep to see them flower. I never had the chance to see that.
And flower stuff purely out of love of the birds and bees. Literally speaking. You won’t believe the amount of bees, butterflies and birds that visit our garden.
So I just gazed with admiration at the beauty you posted.
One day I’ll learn how to post personal photos in here, and than/then you will know I’m not boasting.
Please go on living and writing like you do…..!
I love it to bits.
Kind regards, Gus
By way of introduction:
I am an Amsterdam guy, what with love, children (and bringing ‘em up decently) and even more love, reclaimed my life including the love, and took on a allotment garden.
12.5 by 20.0 metres, which is huge by our standards.
There are greens and vegetables, we only keep to see them flower. I never had the chance to see that.
And flower stuff purely out of love of the birds and bees. Literally speaking. You won’t believe the amount of bees, butterflies and birds that visit our garden.
So I just gazed with admiration at the beauty you posted.
One day I’ll learn how to post personal photos in here, and than/then you will know I’m not boasting.
Please go on living and writing like you do…..!
I love it to bits.
Kind regards, Gus
JiltedJohnny said:Hoi hoi
By way of introduction:
I am an Amsterdam guy, what with love, children (and bringing ‘em up decently) and even more love, reclaimed my life including the love, and took on a allotment garden.
12.5 by 20.0 metres, which is huge by our standards.
There are greens and vegetables, we only keep to see them flower. I never had the chance to see that.
And flower stuff purely out of love of the birds and bees. Literally speaking. You won’t believe the amount of bees, butterflies and birds that visit our garden.
So I just gazed with admiration at the beauty you posted.
One day I’ll learn how to post personal photos in here, and than/then you will know I’m not boasting.
Please go on living and writing like you do…..!
I love it to bits.
Kind regards, Gus
Thank you. So nice to hear of someone else who posts for nature. Our gardens can be FILLED WITH BEES, BIRDS, BUTTERFLIES, HUMMINGBIRDS and so much more. Research what to plant and watch the magic happen! There is nothing more fulfilling than eating something you've grown with your own hands!
The Monarchs have arrived and are enjoying the Joe Pye weed!
VeronikaB said:Beautiful, and the web you weave so effortlessly between a spider's web and the Semmering.
I feel the same about spiders. xx
Thank you. The Spider and a white Snake are my spirit animals. They're quite interesting when you research them. There's another biblical story about the spider:
“And it was when David was hiding in a cave from King Saul that God set a spider who spun a web over the opening of the cave and the cave was closed up by the web. [Saul said] surely no one has entered here for if he had entered he would have torn the web apart. And so he went away and did not enter the cave. When David emerged and saw the spider, he kissed him and said: ‘Blessed by your Creator and blessed be you.” ~ I Samuel 24
My father used to tell me the soldier one so I would think that no matter where he was serving, or what he was doing, he was protected by a Spider. What little girl wouldn't believe that?
I feel the same about spiders. xx
Thank you. The Spider and a white Snake are my spirit animals. They're quite interesting when you research them. There's another biblical story about the spider:
“And it was when David was hiding in a cave from King Saul that God set a spider who spun a web over the opening of the cave and the cave was closed up by the web. [Saul said] surely no one has entered here for if he had entered he would have torn the web apart. And so he went away and did not enter the cave. When David emerged and saw the spider, he kissed him and said: ‘Blessed by your Creator and blessed be you.” ~ I Samuel 24
My father used to tell me the soldier one so I would think that no matter where he was serving, or what he was doing, he was protected by a Spider. What little girl wouldn't believe that?
