I went with a couple of friends on a little road trip this week to see the huge spider web that has recently made national news. It is at Lake Tawakoni State Park.
So with cocktail fixins packed for after web viewing celebrations, me and my buddies took off to see the oddity of spiders working together to build a huge web covering many trees.
The state park is small and it wasn't too difficult to find the spot of the web weirdness on this hiking trail. We happened to be the only ones at there at that time, although the park ranger said that 1400 had come to see it on labor day.
Anyway with no one around me and Carol snuck under the yellow caution tape....well it only said caution, not keep out.....and we got closer.
You could just see the litle brown spiders at work spinning, stretching, and making it bigger as we stood underneath it.
At our feet were numerous big wolf spiders hoping to get near the big web too; and we saw a couple other different spiders. I guess word was out in spider world of the big web...it wsa kinda like the idea of web woodstock in spider world. they couldn't work fast enough and get there quick enough.
The entire webbing covered mulitple trees...like maybe 5 or 6.....it hummed with all of the mosquitoes caught up in it and stank like you wouldn't belive like dead bugs. AFter the smell hit us, we could hardly get out of there fast enough and back to the car for cocktails.
You know any good reason will do for me to celebrate with friends and cocktails and i think that odd spider fest viewing even with the rank smell was a damn great reason.
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