shroud of white netting
wrapped round a plant skeleton
captures a tufted seed
Along the hill going down to the creek, I pass the dried stems of last year's Queen Anne's Lace poking up through this year's green shoots. Some of the skeletal stems are shrouded in white netting, the work of a kind of spider that weaves a tangle web to capture insects. The way the webbing is wrapped around the stems makes the plant skeletons look like a dragon's head and clawed foot. Amusingly, the snout of the dragon's head is decorated with the white tuft of a dandelion seed, poor fare for dragon or spider!
