Well, today really felt like we were real live homeowners--albeit still sniffly ones! After church we worked in the yard for a couple of hours. We discovered a very invasive vine growing up the side of the house--a trumpet, or cow-itch vine. Click here for more information on the trumpet vine. Apparently it's beautiful, but it's also grown into the side of our house. Who knows what's going to happen with that. We managed to kill the root and remove what we could, but the stuff in the side of the roof is too high for us to handle.
Here is the vine... in between the roof and the house. We're worried, but at least now we know it is dead. What is really disconcerting is that we didn't notice it before--meaning we (and everyone else who's been here) are not too observant, or the thing grows pretty rapidly. I'm going with the latter, especially with all the horror stories I've read about it over the past day.
On a brighter (really) note, the maple in the front yard is so beautiful. A few years ago we spent a weekend in Lexington, VA and took a beautiful picture of some foliage against the blue sky. Little did we know that one day we'd have a similar scene. But, of course, those unfortunate Virginians don't have the Channel 4 tower in the background.
