morning glory

Sometimes, messing around, I just come up with an image that gives me a lot of pleasure  - probably an antidote, too, to my near-obsessive checking of the Waldo Canyon fire in Colorado Springs.  And the latter isn't because I'm some kind of disaster junkie, but we were both in the Springs so very recently, and because Alice's research project (and ancestors) are all based in CS and in its history, that means that I have an entirely insubstantiatable feeling that's its somehow connected with me.  Here, though, is a morning glory, gently curving its way round the cypress tree - and hence, in turn, completely failing to convey how tinder dry it is here in LA, too.