mistywebdrops

Hope you like the titling technique… If you can’t think of a good title, just take a few relevant words and smash them together (hat tip to ‘Richard Osman’s House of Games’ Answer Smash round).

Anyway, I chose to take my camera with me on one of my daily dog walks, although with low and damp cloud blanketing the woods it didn’t seem promising. I chose to take my Macro lens, which I probably don’t post enough shots from – but I really haven’t been taking a lot of shots of any sort, so I suppose that could be another reason as well…

It hadn’t rained, but there was a damp mist sitting on the hills, sometimes rolling down so that we where consumed by it, then momentarily clearing into patches of relative brightness. At a couple of hundred metres or so above sea level here, and not far from the coast, we often find ourselves wrapped in this sort of murky wet vapour.

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I noticed the spiders webs, descending in to the depths of the gorse and capturing the moisture in droplets all the way down.

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The thorny gorse is blooming, with long strands of little coconut-scented yellow flowers on each stem. For this one, I took a shot of the droplets on a thorn, looking down from the end of one of the stalks.

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