It’s been a while since I posted one of these, and this picture deserves a little back story.

One of the homeschooling families brought this in to our local park group. This vine had repeatedly grown behind a drain pipe and wrapped itself around the various wires and exterior cables of a home, as vines are wont to do. And every so often, the dad in the family would go out and hack the vine down so that it wouldn’t ruin anything electrical, but he was never able to really reach its roots, so it always grew back.

This went on for quite some time, with the vine growing back and the dad cutting it down…

… until the vine outsmarted him.

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That’s right. It grew IN A KNOT around the electrical wiring. Take that, chop-happy Dad! As is obvious by the photo, the Dad had the last word, but he was so in awe that he brought it for all of the children to ooh and ahh over at the park.

You really do kind of have to admire its tenacity, am I right?