Here’s a little surreal view of nature today. I encountered this spider on my hike today and had to capture the right angle to really show it up for the curious item it is. I don’t know the details of species but today’s scene is more of an art piece in its silhouette effect. I was hiking through the forest and came across a web set up on the path, like a spider awaiting its fly for dinner. Not wanting to destroy all its hard work, I gapped around the web made by this big spider but thought I would capture the scene to show you.
Not a small spider by any means, we really have a giant of an African arachnid here making its bridge out of web design. From the photo is appears as if the spider is in free fall or in flight since you can’t really see the webs that are woven between the tree branches to hold it in place.
Nature is so full of small details that we simply miss because we are not focused on that level of detail. We gloss over or brush past much of the plethora of activity going on all about us in the wilderness, yet there is an entire cosmos of activity, like a holographic fractal of all that’s going on in space around our planet.
But if we take the time to slow down and not only smell the roses but also observe the wonders of nature all about us, we will slowly come to realize that life is everywhere and it is prolific. So much is going on while were looking the other way or caught up in observing the bigger picture. So it pays to zoom out but it also pays to zoom in sometimes.
The message is in the details sometimes too. We just need to be in the moment to really become receptive and still enough to pick up the mood and details of nature’s symphony, displayed in light, in life and in love. The birds and the bees also includes the spiders and the butterflies. They all make up the magic of nature.
I only get to tap in to this level of reality when I have no predetermined objective or no time constraints and can simply enter a meditative state while wondering randomly through the forest in this part of the world, here on the south Cape coast of Africa. If you can set aside some time from your busy schedule of chasing your goals, then you may find that you already have much of what it takes to make life perfects and complete in itself.
Perhaps this visual impression of the spider today has allowed me to see life more philosophically. No majestic vistas or rolling landscapes are visible here to add a sense of awe. It’s only a larger than life arachnid on its web in space, balanced on a thread awaiting its just deserts. If we put in the effort before hand, in a calculated way, and simply work hard weaving our web of activity, then we will reap our rewards.
If we set the scene, and then simply wait for nature to take its course, we will be well positioned to capture all the right moves as the plays unfold like clockwork. Everything comes in its own time, so it pays to be prepared and positioned to capture the moment that can make it all worthwhile. With a web of plans and strategies in place, we can bag ourselves a juicy goal and really profit from our earlier investments. That’s what I see in the lesson of the spider as seen here before us today in this photo from my forest hike.
Mycelium - another of the subtle mysteries of nature
Nature is our greatest teacher and guide. We can learn a lot if we are in the receptive mode of being and open to the wisdom of nature who has had millennia to adapt and mold itself and us all for the better, every step of the way. What a wonderful system we have in all life on earth, one that lives harmoniously in all species, despite the apparent clash of the species competing to survive. It’s all there for us to learn from, when we are ready to take the lessons.
(photos my own)
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I really enjoyed this... with I had found your writing earlier - or had the time to read it back then.
My spider philosophy was influenced by a story heard long ago... about rebuilding and resilience. I love your comment about also needing to zoom in sometimes :)