Google spiders’ webs and you’ll find any number of scientific articles celebrating the resilience of the silken strands that spiders produce Not only is the silk stronger than steel, it’s springy and elastic. The design of the web ensures that even when a strand is broken, the overall formation remains sound.
I found a spider’s web on a recent cold and frosty morning. By rights such a delicate structure should have collapsed under the weight of its coating of thick icy rime. It hadn’t. It’s the perfect candidate for this week’s WordPress photo challenge: resilient.
And here are a few more shots from a cold and frosty morning in North Yorkshire:
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Ah, it is that time of the year which tests our resilience – winter. We had a hard frost this morning and had I seen a spider web, it might have been coated like yours. Spider webs are beautiful and I never seem to be able to take a photo which does one justice – to catch the beauty, the strength, and the subtleness of the web. Happy new Year. Peace.
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I wasn’t all that pleased with this particular photo, but I was pretty impressed with the spider’s effort. Happy new year to you too!
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Very nice frosty photos! The amount of ice on your spider’s web is astounding!
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It was. It looked even heavier as it started to melt.
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I wouldn’t like to meet the builder of that web in a dark alley!
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Oh, I think it would be OK. It was just a small web. Happy new year!
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Lovely photos. No frost here, but still cold. Wishing you a very happy and healthy 2017 x
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Thank you – you too. The frost comes and goes here. It’s a bit scarce for January.
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What lovely frosty photos! The spiders web looks more like a woven macrame – extraordinary!
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Yes, it could have held a good old 1970s pot plant 😉
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I hear they’re back in style – really!
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What an amazing combination of web and ice! I love your frosty landscape pictures too. Usually such landscapes make me think “brrr”, but at home today in South Africa it is 40 degrees outside and 32 degrees indoors, despite the fan on, blinds down, etc, and so the sight of frosty fields is rather refreshing 🙂 Best (and very warm) New Year wishes to you.
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And to you too. I’m as invigorated by your warmer climate pictures as you are by frosty ones.
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Beautiful shots. Gosh I get excited just to see few dew drops on webs!
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This was a bit exceptional.
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Wow! That is very neat! I’ve never seen a web so encased in ice–it looks like it was woven from rope. All the photos are beautiful–that’s a very special weather phenomenon!
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And sadly, rather uncommon this winter. I love a good frosty spell in winter, but this year, we have to be content with odd days of real cold.
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It actually looks like it’s been crocheted. I have never seen one that solid before. We have a long leylandii hedge alongside our garden and in it is often decorated the whole way with frosty webs.
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You’re not alone in commenting on the likeness to crochet. It is extraordinary, isn’t it – as your hedge must be.
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You are right, the spider’s web is resilient. Wonderful photos of beauty on a frosty morning.
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I wish there were more of them this winter.
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Great shot and contribution to this week’s photo challenge!
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Thank you. As usual, it’s a question of being in the right place at the right time.
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