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My neighbor's wall has the best red ivy I've seen here this year.  Throw in a beautiful blue sky and some vivid greenery and voilà.

the red leaves of ivy

Long time readers of ADP know that every autumn I lament the lack of bright red tree leaves as I so love in the States.  The yellow leaves here are great (especially the ginkgos) but there are very few maple trees and their ilk that just explode in red.  However in compensation, there are many, many walls of ivy that do "paint the town red", as the expression goes.  Here is small patch from my neighbor's beautiful red-walled courtyard.

miles and miles of tiles

It pays to explore different cycling routes in this area.  I have gone near this place many times but had never ventured down this little road to the west of Amboise. Now I'm scouring my map for other passages I've missed.

ivy envy

This photo could be in the dictionary under the word "overwhelming".

devine

There are very few trees here that show any red in the fall, so we have to rely on all the wonderful climbing vines.

ivy art

I know I recently posted a wall of red ivy but I couldn't resist this one too.  This wall of ivy has dropped all of its leaves except for some of the precious red ones.  I liked the patterns from the sinuous shoots remaining over what appear formally to be windows through the stone wall.