The honeysuckle is blooming and my yard needs a lot of work.
Earlier today I was trying to rid it of an obnoxious (to my eyes) climbing vine that has invaded my property in recent years. I didn't know what it was called, so I briefly thought of snapping a photo and posting it to my blog.
Since I thought it was just a worthless weed, I didn't hold much hope of identifying it on the web.
Fast forward a couple hours and I'm reading a book on viruses when the concept of a virion, a complete virus particle, is introduced. Off hand, I can think of several ways of pronouncing it (why can't science books include the pronunciation of scientific terms?), so I look it up in the dictionary. VIE-ree-on. OK, now I can pronounce it.
As I'm closing the dictionary my eye notices a photograph in the top right-hand corner. Was that a photo of my obnoxious plant? Or were my eyes playing tricks?
So I re-opened the dictionary and went back to that page.
Sure enough, it was my plant. Now I know it's actually a Virginia Creeper.
What are the odds?
