itsy bitsy spider

Sitting on my daughter's toddler bed playing with her I found myself looking out the window into our backyard. On the clothing line there were two large webs with a spider in each. Obviously we hardly ever use the clothing line. I think the last time we did it was years ago. I thought it was odd that two webs were so very close to each other and just starred at the two spiders in them. The smaller of the two could not keep still and seemed to keep triggering the other web. In my head I started a dialog on what was happening...
*ping*
the larger spider scurried quickly to the corner of his web
"gotcha"!
"Hi Bill" said the smaller spider in the web right next door
"Oh sorry about that Frank" said the larger spider

Finding it funny I kept watching the two. Evidently my dialog didn't go along with what was actually happening because the larger spider scurried over to the corner of his web a third time and ended up attacking the smaller spider and then chased him off down the clothing line and then returned to his web. I guess they aren't social creatures........

I relate.

My husband came into the room and I told him to look at the spider hanging from the clothing line and he said "this one" but he was pointing higher on the window and I thought he was trying to trick me. I moved in to take a closer look and right on the other side of the glass was a huge scary looking spider. "Ahh"!

Talk about not seeing the forest through the trees.

The spider inspired a work of clay for me. Hours of sketching after dinner and when everyone was asleep I put my hands to clay. The entire night it was lucid creating. Felt wonderful. The morning I showed my better half the halfway there piece and he destroyed it. Forest through the trees...this life isn't for me.