Advancing from a safe root underground, which stores life-force and nutrients during the dry times -- and in case of fire or other disaster -- vines burst forth in moist springtime, groping toward sunlight, grasping at any ways to climb higher. Gravity parasites. Charming little shy flowers. I venture just past the kissing gate on lower Toyon Trail before returning back to Old Spanish. 2/10/2022, 8:25 am.