Flowering Vine

What is this flowering vine? I Googled “Yellow Flower Vine” and didn’t get a definitive answer.

Instead of taking a hike in the woods this morning we decided to take a walk downtown to the Old Aiken Market where we can get fresh baked bagels and fresh squeezed orange juice for our Sunday breakfast. It is definitely springtime here in Aiken because on our 5 mile meander we passed by numerous plants and trees in bloom and stopped at several spots so I could take pictures of the azalea, dogwood, wisteria, cherry and whatever that yellow vine is blossoms. We also stopped for a while at the Aiken Training Track and watched the thoroughbreds go through their morning exercises. We stopped at a railroad overpass and watched the local 5 car work train pass by. On the way home we ducked into the library to read a magazine. By the time we got home we had killed the entire morning.

Update: Two years (March 31, 2010) after I posted this, I got an email from someone asking if I ever did find out what this plant was called. He has a big bush of it in his backyard and was trying to figure what it was. He did manage to find out what it was with zero help from me and emailed me the name, Rosa Banksiae ‘Lutea’. Cool. So that is where the old home that dates from the time of the Civil War War of Northern Aggression, Banksia, and currently houses the local county’s museum got its name.