I’ve been checking this one spot along my walk to work all Spring, a row of metal signposts along a parking lot. These are simply dark metal objects that absorb what heat there is, and while they look barren and uninteresting, they have been a reliable home for a population of small spiders.
On Sunday, I saw nothing there. Yesterday, Monday, I saw this:
It’s silk. Just a few strands of spider silk across the bar, telling me that spiders have moved in. All of the signposts have silk to varying degrees, suggesting that maybe there was a recent hatch and a spider swarm is repopulating the area.
It’s reassuring to see, even as I’m buried under grading. Just two weeks to go before the semester ends and 6 months of sabbatical begins.
You get to go on a sabbatical finally! What are you planning to do?
Recover.
I was thinking of the re-lifing machine from The Day the World Stood Still.
If you have the $$$ maybe you can go where you can enjoy the summer midnight sun.