I looked out the kitchen window this morning, put my hand on the sill to steady myself. My heart beat quickly as I slipped silently outside, moving shyly.

The sun lit the strands stretching to anchor the webs—I have begun looking for the fastening points, the fancy work at the edges,

the taut lines apart from a web proper.

Against the deep blue, the whole web starts to shimmer and tries on one color after another,

and small, new points dot the inner, the outer, and above on this day celebrating the Earth…

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1. Heidi Miller:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 9:27 am

   Gorgeous! Makes me want to stop and take a breath today. Great way to start Earth Day, indeed.

2. Kristen:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 11:24 am

   thanks, Heidi. Does Chicago have big Earth Day celebrations? Here’s to celebrating wherever we are—

3. John Jackson:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 12:14 pm

   Look at those colors you captured in the web! I love that oily orange texture.

4. Alejandro:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm

   This is gorgeous, K. The last picture looks like spidey is spinning some vinyl.

5. Kristen:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm

   Great word, John, oily for the slick surface of the web. I almost forgot to take a picture :)

   A, this is right before “Electric Feel” came cranking out—also, new podcast up tonight with a few songs I think you’ll like—

6. Amanda:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 6:53 pm

   absolutely gorgeous. you are gifted!

7. Kristen:
   April 22nd, 2009 at 8:43 pm

   thanks, Amanda. More that I’m surrounded by incredible beauty at the Magic Cottage and trying to pause, look around me, and try and capture it—

8. Steven:
   April 24th, 2009 at 3:00 am

   Kristen, I hope you don’t mind that I grabbed one of your beautiful photos so that I could yammer on about diffraction. These are so great!

9. Kristen:
   April 24th, 2009 at 7:13 am

   Steven, delighted. I’m enjoying your starry blog and learning more about why the colors do seem to appear on the web above. (Everyone, here’s Steven’s post using the penultimate image above.) I hope to discover more spider webs soon to post here—

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