While walking through Richmond, we came along a street of older houses in what seemed like quite a desirable neighborhood.  The dominant feature of most of these houses was the preponderance of wisteria on their frontages.  Some of the plants were confined to one house while others seemed to span whatever property that they felt like.  The purple blooms were most impressive, and it seemed like they were competing to see which house could be more purple than the next.  I don’t know how long wisteria blooms for so did we get lucky with our timing, or could we have been there at a wider range of times?