Virginia A. Spiegel

Arachne

Technically this probably isn’t a very inspiring photo, but I still like it for its levels of sharpness and blur. The spider webs have been beautiful and numerous of late.

This plant is one of what I call Contractor Shrubs. They are planted because non-gardeners have a hard time killing them, although they are of dubious landscape value. This is barberry with nasty thorns.  I should have taken these barberries out when I started my own landscape gardening, but now have more or less muted them out with other plants.  I didn’t photoshop this at all, but the general hue of this small shrub is generally more purple than red.