I was filling the pasture water bucket when I saw this leaf hanging off the side of the red barn. It was early, just after sunset, and I was out feeding the animals and checking on things to let Maria sleep – she has a sinus headache of some kind, it was severe.

I loved the light coming through the leaf from the sun but then wondered how on earth the leaf could possibly have gotten there and what heled it. If you look closely at the photo, you can see that it got caught in a spider web.

I can only imagine the surprise and frustration of the spider, this was not a big bug. One of the things I love about life on a farm is that I see things like that every day – things that are mysterious, sometimes inexplicable, but which can easily be explained and speak to the randomness of life and fate.

I love trying to capture moments like this.

The leaf makes a beautiful statement hanging up there in the sun and hanging in there even in a stiff wind. Spiders and webs are an enduring part of the life here, in a sense, they give the leaf a new chapter. And a neat, kind of modernist photograph.  If we had snooty photo galleries around here, I could almost see this one hanging on a wall.

Today, a big day in the Bedlam calendar. We are going to pick up the wool that Maria has had spun into beautiful, multi-color yarn which she will put up for sale tomorrow. I’ll keep an eye on the leaf, which can’t really last too long up there.