There's that time at the end of November where everything freezes up rock-hard and you know the deep freeze of winter has begun. Then there is that time in the spring where all the ice lets go and everthing opens up. This is then. Read more about Larry Weber's book, Web Watching: A Guide to Webs and the Spiders That Make Them, and the award it won for Sparky Stensaas' Stone Ridge Press here. And check out what we were dealing with last year at this time in this Backyard Almanac phenology-on