you can’t con a con artist

I saw a mat of wild cucumber vines choking out some roadside brush. Finding the prickly fruit quite interesting, I stopped to pick some for today’s STILL. I had to wade into a thicket in flip flops to get to it. So I got as close as I comfortably could, and then just reached in and grabbed. Out came my specimen and a clever hitchhiker. The pair made me smile. A freeloader hitchhiking on a freeloader. Now that’s resourceful.

wild cucumber fruit (Echinocystis lobata) and burdock seedhead (Arctium)