Fall Color

I am seeing something this fall that I don't remember seeing before.  Strings of red, orange and yellow leaves that are clearly from some sort of creeping vine.  I have seen it in our ivy the back yard, on a tree a ways down on Laurel avenue, and on our neighbor's wall, crawling over the ivy.  The leaves look a lot like Maple tree leaves, but they are clearly not.  In any case, it is really the first brilliant fall color we are seeing so far.  I love that this shows the colorful vines, but some remaining rose blossoms, as well as the blue branches of the plant in the lower right that I cannot remember the name of.

So Ron guessed from what little of the plant was showing in the lower right corner of the photo, that it was Russian Sage.  So I went out an photographed it, even though it was dusk and it was getting dark out, thinking that a close-up would help.  When I came back in, Kathy was awake from her nap and she did identify it as Russian sage.  Thought you all might enjoy knowing this, since I absolutely depend on my gardening friends for help with so many flowers and plants!  I also noticed, by the way, that my original photograph was much too dark, so I lightened that photograph as well.