Winter

[bellinghman]

It's definitely winter out there. The frost we had last night was spectacular - better than a snowfall - and it's still comfortably sub-zero. I'm just glad I'm not out driving in it, since part of the reason is that it's very slightly foggy too.

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[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

It was spectacular, wasn't it? I sent MWNN out to photograph the hoar frost on the spiders' webs. Not sure they came out, he thinks the batteries are dead.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

It's mostly melted off over here now - just turned into that cold, damp fog.

Yeuch!

[mkillingworth.livejournal.com]

The spider webs were incredible, weren't they? I noticed loads that I hadn't even realised were there before.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

A couple of the photos came out ok. This one's on one of those big wheelie bins, so you can see clearly how big the web is - webfrost

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Which shows just how strong spider silk is - without that ice all over it, you can't see it, yet that invisible core is holding up quite a weight.

[hesadevil.livejournal.com]

Kevlar?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Not quite the same stuff, but pretty close. Kevlar may be said to be to spider silk what nylon is to normal silk - inspired by it, but not quite it.