Saturday, 8:30 AM. 64 degrees, wind SSW, calm. The channel is calm, the sky overcast. .2” of rain fell last night, and the barometer predicts more. It is a very quiet morning.
Virgin’s bower, Clematis virginiana, in the buttercup family, is not all that common here in the wild. It is a very attractive vine, clambering on shrubs and trees. In the Midwest it is usuallypronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable, in the East, on the first. In NY my pronunciation of it gave away my geographical origins, akin to that of potato and tomato. As the song says, "let's call the whole thing off."
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