It is a New Year’s Eve of 2552 in the Buddhist era (2009 in the Christian era) today.

The monsoon blows strongly and makes sounds.
It is a very cold wind.

Several days ago, I went to the little barn to take the tool.
And, I noticed some differences.

In the garden, there was a cobweb of Joro-Spider (Nephila clavata).
She was putting a large cobweb, which was about 1,5 meters in width, between the branch of the apricot and the branch of the pomegranate.

I found that she is missing.
I saw that her cobweb was torn.
Remains of her cobweb with leaves and a dead marmelade fly (Episyrphus balteatus) hung down and were swinging in the wind.

When I was observing her work about two weeks ago, applying the law of gravity, she was removing leaves from her net by handling her arms and legs dexterously.

After a while, on one occasion I went out to the garden, because I worried about her.

I found that she had become thin.
And I worried about her.

After that, she was missing.

I don’t know whether she hid herself in the refuge to avoid the cold of winter before I was aware, or, she finished her short life as it described on the blog.

Today, the monsoon in the northwest blows strongly through the little garden.
And I can’t find anything in the air between the branch of the apricot and the branch of the pomegranate.

written by a Japanese friend living near Tokyo