Spider Walk

So I'm staying with my father for a few days, in Virginia. I've been writing during the day and visiting in the evenings, and today turned out to be an interesting day, mainly for the events that happened while I was on my afternoon walk.

It's March now, and today was a really warm and sun-filled day. I took a break and went for a walk, just around the neighborhood and the surrounding lands. I hopped a fence and started walking on this paved path. And as I was walking, the sun was shining, and I caught a shimmer of something in the air. I didn't think much of it the first time--except that it was interesting. And then I saw the rainbow shimmer again. It looked like a long strand of spider silk. That's really cool, I thought. This spider web has some interesting reflective properties. I stopped to consider the matter further. There were some trees nearby, so I thought it was coming down from one of the branches, so I backed up and waited for the light and the silk to line up and create the shimmer again. But the shimmer stayed with me. It moved with me. I soon realized that a long strand of spider web was attached to my beard! This made me smile and cheer inside.

Now I had walked through spider webs before--we all have--but this was different. The web was stuck to me, and I was walking down the path, flying a long thin banner and telling the world of my spider pride. The wind was behind me--I should have mentioned this earlier--so the spider silk was blowing in front of me. It was a funny and beautiful sight. I kept walking, smiling, just marveling at the way things float and move around in this world. And I was a little sad too, worried that I had broken some spider's work. But I didn't remember walking through a web, so maybe the web had just blown into me. It was windy. And such things could happen.

I couldn't keep the web on me all day, but I enjoyed it while it was there. And then I gently pulled the gossamer line off my beard and sent it flying in the wind. No spider seemed to be present. I checked. And that's the story of what happened to me on my spider walk.