On our little trip up the mountain yesterday, I have to admit I saw something I hadn’t noticed before. Tromping through the soft and mushy snowdrifts, we’d come out on bare ground, then another drift, then bare ground, and I noticed something. The ground was covered in a white translucent cover of something. Not snow, not ice, not frost… it initially reminded me of a layer of thistle down laying on the ground.
It wasn’t. It was a film of cobweb-like stuff. No spiders visible that I saw. The only other thing I thought of was like mushroom mycelium, but that should be underground. I also thought of web worms, but they weren’t there either.
So, who can tell me what it is?
