Flowers with Spider Webs and Tree Seeds!

When I went out to check my Columbine garden a few weeks ago, it was during the time that all of the Poplar trees were shedding their seed pods and they "snowed down" on everything.

When I went to take closeup pictures of my Columbines, I noticed that they looked like spider webs hanging all over them.

In some cases, the spiders actually took up residence and used the seed pod "cotton" to make webs as well amongst the flowers.

Here are some pictures for you to enjoy looking at the delicate webs both the tree seeds and the spider webs made:

If you look close at this one, you WILL see a spider who is taking advantage of the windfall seed pods. He is in the lower left of the picture!:

There are just a few "webs" in the flowers on the right of this photo:

This one is all fuzzy from the seed pod webs:

This one needs a shave!

Doesn't it look like a little bird on the right, with a yellow beak, ready to take off in flight?:





Again, the spiders already found this condo to live in:

This is a closeup of the fuzz on the delicate petals of this one:

This one is wearing a toupee of it!:

You could hardly see any of this with your naked eyes....it only showed up when I loaded the pictures larger on my computer...and I was quite excited to see what detail and fun it brought to the pictures of the Columbines. Nature always finds a way to amaze me!