IT IS LATE AND TIME TO RETIRE, but out in the field are trees with damp roots, blissfully asleep.
We haven’t had rain since early June, and may not get any until November.
So I’ve been out visiting trees lately and noticed that spiders are durable — that is, they can be found in the same place, doing the same thing, over a prolonged period of time.
Once a grass spider has spun her web, she will be a lasting feature of her particular tree or shrub.
Today, I met a wolf spider. Wolf spiders don’t spin webs. They prowl and chase down prey, like a tarantula. They have good eyesight. This one would move into a shadow, or to the opposite side from me, to hide as I moved to follow.
Even without a web as a home, this wolf spider may well be found in the same place the next time I visit.
Meanwhile, I fed carrots to two horses on the way in. We are old friends by now, yet, we always have a fence between us, being they are owned by a neighbor.
I wonder…
Do the trees remember me..? Does the wolf spider..? Do the horses..?
I remember all of them.
Thwarticus 