Picture Notes

Interwoven

Our lives seem to be interwoven in a pattern that can’t be imagined. I was thinking about this and the way the spider web looks so magical in the morning light and as you approach it becomes more interesting with globs of water like jewels on each thread until you look close enough to see the spider and the beauty of the web is transformed into something of danger because you looked too close.

The spider isn’t normally aggressive but wants to be left alone to live it’s life; to reproduce and to capture and to eat it’s food. It’s only when someone makes the mistake of getting too close (invading it’s territory) or actually scaring it (and believing that it will be harmed) will become aggressive and attack.

Our world seems to be increasingly held together by fine threads that could break at any minute and there are many things in life that shouldn’t be examined with too much scrutiny because to do so would cause disillusionment and perhaps panic. Modern money is the first thing that comes to my mind - it’s a promise, there are no precious metals present.

A Bee Returns

No one is quite sure what happened to the honey bees this summer - 80% of them are just gone. I found this guy on a flower in Falls Church, working away collecting pollen and made this wall paper kind of photograph of him. I like the patterns of the body and the wings against the flower in the foreground. I wouldn’t call this a photograph of a honey bee.

Some think the population crash might have been caused by cell phone activity, millions of people calling home to tell someone they will either arrive late or on time for dinner, and giving their partner confidence that they are not messing around with someone at the office.

I wonder if anyone is looking at the radio waves we are creating with just a simple phone call and how that will effect our long term health, or that of the honey bee or other animals.