Away or Apart - Vines always outstretching to find something to cling to.
This happens to be a Wild Cucumber vine. (Echinocystis lobata)
We have been seeing many of these on our shoots in Southern California.
"Wild cucumber is known by many names, some of which are:
prickly cucumber, wild balsam apple, balsam apple, creeping jenny,
four-seeded bur cucumber and concombre grimpant.
It exists throughout North America as a trailing vine that can be up to six metres long."
(Excerpt from http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artoct06/bj-Cucumber.html)
by Brian Johnston (Canada)