On Saturday, September  9, I set the alarm for 5:30 a.m. with plans to go to a local lake and shoot sunrise landscapes.  I knew we were going to have mornng fog, although .... low lying pockets of fog can help the mood.... but the fog was heavier and thicker than expected. 

As you can see from the photo of a rock in the lake below, there was no contrast and any chance of a sunrise was shot.  But, photographers work with what is available.  And I had plenty of spider webs in the grasses and weeds around the lake and the dew made them quite nice to shoot, so I started with this.

My first spider web below will probably become my Halloween week screensaver. :)

As the sun came up a little, I was able to focus ... and I begin to see a few of the critters that made the webs. In the low light, exposures were long,

but my subjects were patient. Even the slightest breeze ruins these shots, so I have lots of bad shots also.  Thank goodness we live in a digital world.

While shooting one particular web, a grasshopper moved down below.  I was able to get a few shots of this little insect before he became impatient.

As you can see, my grasshopper friend had to defy gravity a bit while posing.

Once the insect left, I was back to shooting the arachnid family.

The spider above became my screensaver today. ... at least for the next week.  :)

By the time my last macro was taken, I had missed sunrise, but I still had a little time to shoot a few landscapes of the eastern Pennsylvania countryside.  I clicked a few exposures and then headed home for a well deserved breakfast.  It was only 10:30 a.m. when I made it home.  The coffee tasted very good after mucking around in the dark and the dew with spiders!