Saturday, September 16, 2023

What you see and what you don't

 Overcast skies, a little drizzle — a perfect day for deer to be moving in the woods near Stone Mountain, I thought, and so they were.

I saw four.

I remembered that overcast days are good times for deer watchers. I forgot that days when the woods are dark are also good times for orbweavers.

It was almost impossible to see their webs. I blundered into more than four.

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