Ivy

One thing I don't think I ever noticed until this year is how colorful ivy can get in the fall. Certainly the ivy we have growing in our backyard in DC never changes color in the fall--the best you can say is that at least in the winter it stops trying to take over our lawn. So I was surprised on a recent trip to the Alsace to see that the ivy spread across one house had turned bright red:



And then we saw an even more striking house in the charming little town of Chateauneuf-en-Auxois in Burgundy this weekend: