Mist conceals but it also reveals, as with these two webs on neighbouring openings in the railings. In each case the spider is tucked out of sight up in the right hand corner.
The two webs are not identical, but so similar that it seems obvious that the two spiders are of the same kind. It's commonsense.
In other words we assume regularity in nature. Seeing two webs with this degree of similarity we automatically conclude that there is a kind of spider that makes this kind of web, and if we see the same kind tomorrow we shall be able to say that it is the same kind of spider that has made it.
The same commonsense refined becomes science. Nature, our world, our universe, follow rules, beneath which there are other rules, and so on beyond the current reach of human intelligence.
And knowing all that we can still wonder at the web's beauty.
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