On a recent morning walk, I noted that summer's green was progressively succumbing to the red, rust, gold and orange of autumn.
Stopping abruptly, I was almost shocked at the vibrancy of some trumpet-shaped morning glories climbing up a weathered fence along the road, ascending toward the sun in shades of cool china blue that contrasted starkly against the backdrop of foliage. There in the midst of heart-shaped leaves and flowers, a butterfly clung, freshly emerged from its chrysalis and delicately stretching its wings.
Morning glories are one of hundreds of species of twining vines of the genus Ipomoea, within the Convolvulaceae plant family. The vines are …
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