This morning we woke up to a blanket of fog.  That wasn't completely out of the ordinary, but what sparked our interest was all of the spider webs that we could see.  The wet air had put drops of dew all over the webs around the house.  And being "fall", there were a LOT of webs. 

We started out investigating our front porch. 

But soon the kids were running around the yard finding webs.

We found lots of teeny tiny webs in the grass about 1 inch in diameter.  We also found some bigger webs in the trees and on this sunflower in our garden. 

I found a really good example of a funnel web.

On the way back from the house, I noticed our bushes. 

Can you believe all those webs?  And you can see the fog in the background.

After breakfast, we set up bug bombs and went to Walmart while all of our indoor spiders died. 

When we got home, I read to the kids about spiders from the Handbook of Nature Study.  Tomorrow, we will begin our spider unit study that has been sitting around for a few years, waiting to be used. 

And since we are on the subject of spiders, here is one we found the other night.

And his web which was about 5 feet tall.