It's winter, and the leaves are gone, but you still know this vine.  Now the question is this:  do you touch it?

 

I wouldn't, because it's poison ivy!!!  Easy to identify, even in winter:  hairy roots clinging tightly to the tree bark.  

 

Our weather has been so nice lately, and it's tempting to get outside and do a little clean up around the yard.  Just pay attention to vines, and if they are hairy like this, stay away.  A bad case of dermatitis would not be a happy way to start out the new year.  

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!