old roses, new spiders

Who says flowers don't last? This gift arrived fresh in delicate shades of death with a tinge of pink and of course I had to photograph them! It took a couple of weeks for the correct planetary/solar/weather alignment to coincide with a suitable break in my work/play/sleep alignment, but one morning I woke up to find that the rains had headed North to bother the Vaalies and that the sun was reflecting off the house next door, bathing my kitchen garden in a wonderful warm glow that created the perfect natural lighting conditions to make my flowers last. I had noticed that a spider had spun her web around some of the roses early on, but it was only when I looked through my micro lens that I could see the teeny specks of hundreds of translucent baby spiders and eggs...