"Silk-thin silver strings woven cleverly into a lair,
An intricate entwining of divinest thread...
Like strands of magic worked upon the air,
The spider spins his enchanted web -
His home so eerily, spiraling spreads.

His gossamer so rigid, yet lighter than mist,
And like an eight-legged sorcerer - a wizard blest,
His lace, like a spell, he conjures and knits;
I witnessed such wild ingenuity wrought and finessed,
Watching the spider weave a dream from his web." Johnathan Platt 2013

I hope you can see the spider web in this image. If you zoom in you will see little droplets of colour entwined in the silken threads.

It was the web that caught my attention and my focus. Perhaps I captured too much of the background landscape in the image but I wanted to show the context of where the web was built. It added another layer of intimacy to what was a layered, bio-diverse scene at the relatively new Chelsea Gardens, situated within the Dandenong Botanic Gardens.

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