traveller’s joy

when i sit down to post my daily image and write these little missives, i will almost always look up my subject on wiki. one of my unexpected delights is when they list the “also known as” names of my subject in other parts of world. the names are often far more descriptive than our english name. clematis, for example, comes from the greek word for climbing plant. it’s a fine name. but the brit’s call their native species traveller’s joy. now that’s a name i can remember. and it fits both the climbing (traveling) vine and the joyfulness of those oversized blossoms (and buds) on such a delicate vine. you say tomato, i say tomato.

clematis flowers