Many of us are old enough to remember when wall phones had long coiled cords that usually ended up stretched out and elongated. That’s exactly what I was thinking of when I spotted these coiled tendrils of some kind of flower yesterday when I was exploring Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
I wasn’t sure how to capture them in an image and tried a couple of different approaches. The image below was my favorite. It is kind of a natural abstract image, but I included the flower in the corner of it to give the image a sense of context.
Those who read my postings regularly know that this is not the usual kind of photo that I post—sometimes it is fun to venture outside of my normal box.
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Mike Powell 
That’s a good mental connection. I guess I’m old enough to see it 🙂
That is too funny, for it really does look like phone cord. Oh yes, those were the days, you would see just how far you could stretch it to try to get some privacy away from your parents. LOL!
It is totally like a phone cord! I love the way you got it to glow in the light.
They look like the tendrils of the wild cucumber (Echinocystis lobata) in which case the flowers would have been white.
Thanks. My first thought was that the yellow flower and the tendrils were from the same plant, but I am beginning to think that they were simply intertwined.
Yes, wild cukes will climb anything.
Cool shot, Mike, and made me smile thinking of that phone cord.
Nice Mike! Abstract and Fun at the same time!