TheBanyanTree: A SPIDER’S LAST OF THE AUTUMN THREADS

[smack58 at nycap.rr.com]

I'm sure these Berkshire winter's did the spider in for the year but I'll bet there are lots of little spider eggs left behind.  I hope, not in my car though!  LOL.  In summer, I often find them on my window, wipers and mirrors and carry them along just as you do, but not on purpose, that's for sure.  They seem to like the hood of the car.  It must be warm for them. :) 

Mother Nature and I have a deal though.  As long as the little buggers are outside, they live.  Come inside...you're dead.  But my son hates that I do that so he gently captures them and takes them out to the garden where they can live in splendor.  He's a good boy...now if he could only do the same with the mice...


---- Mike Pingleton <pingleto at gmail.com> wrote: 
I like it, Sharon.  I'm hoping your little arachnid friend finds shelter
soon.
I've taken several spiders on tours of other states.  I sometimes notice
one hanging on to the windshield wipers, or on the side mirror, and hope
I'm not messing things up too badly by taking them somewhere else.

-Mike

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:35 AM, <smack58 at nycap.rr.com> wrote:

> A SPIDER’S LAST OF THE AUTUMN THREADS
>
> What are you doing out there?
> Shouldn’t you be dead by now?
> The frost has already been here
> Whitening the ground,
> Yet I see your silver threads
> Glinting in the sun
> Across my windshield
> As though you had somewhere to go.
>
>
> Could it have been my warm engine
> After I arrived home
> Yesterday afternoon?
> Did it save you from the frost?
> Will you be here another day?
> Will it be your last?
>
>
> I will look for your silver threads tomorrow.
> I will look for them everyday
> Until the absence of them tells me you are finally gone.
> Then, and only then
> Will I know that winter is truly on its way?
>
> (c) Sharon Mack
>