On one of those rare mornings when the mist is heavy in the river valley and the Murray Princess is fog-horning her way up the river, droplets are busy collecting on a multitude of surfaces. We have had a long drought period in South Australia, so a heavy moisture-laden morning is much appreciated. Perhaps temporarily inconvenient for the spiders, water coalesces on the fine threads and nodes of their webs. In the first, an installation in a twin leaf creates a random arrangement of droplets. In the second, a dense hammock-like structure, nestled neatly in an exocarpus, captures delicate strings of beads and showcases the strength of the web. But the glistening buds of an unknown fine-leaved eucalyptus really caught my eye: the bottom part of the bud delightfully speckled and the top part a vibrant orange. And on the underneath of the downward pointing buds, small droplets are forming. Moisture collected by thousands of these buds would, in some small measure, bring relief to a long-parched tree.