There is a retaining wall that lines a pathway next to the eastern portion of our house, and it's covered in this climbing plant (ivy, maybe? I'M NOT SO GOOD WITH PLANTS). I've seen my fair share of "This Old House" and know that it's not good for the infrastructure of anything to have a plant growing on it, let alone a crumbling concrete wall that is holding up the yard of the house next to ours, but damn if during the Fall that wall doesn't look like it's on fire. So I'll forgive it for a few weeks.