M I A
Welcome to my domain.
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If you mean no harm, or are food.
I’ll wait here patiently, til the flowers die.
Holding on, if only by a thread, it seems.
Food, to a spider … not a lot about these cold winter days.
Mother has gone missing in action, life moves on.
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Nature's Place 
What an exquisite creature…
Indeed … exotic.
A kernel of corn with eyes and legs :-) Beautiful pictures. What do you mean, “Mother has gone missing” Mark?
M I A, Missing In Action. Mother Love, the last post here – https://beingmark.com/2021/05/25/mother-love/ – has gone missing from the only place she’s likely to be found in the garden. Succumbed to the attentions of the myna birds perhaps, or old age, or hunger, or …
So, time for the new. This little kernel of corn is a fraction the size of mother, much younger, and hungry by her behaviour – there’s not a lot to eat in the garden either. Survival in the garden is fraught … with challenges.
A very strange form this spider has.
I also watched it recently inmidst flowers of the same colour.
She will incubate many little ones in that strange form. And the longer she looks like a flower, the same colour anyway, she has a good chance of living long enough to fulfill her function and provide many small spiders to serve the garden, the nature.
Amazing photographs of a strange beauty.
Indeed … Thanks Heide.
Almuth = ‘pflanzwas’
I am Heide = ‘puzzleblume’
Thanks Heide.
It’s early morning here, after a mostly sleepless night – is my excuse.
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No Problem. I know Almuth from blogging since years :-)