I know, not real impressive to show leaves when it is Fall. But when you lived your whole life in Texas where there is pretty much one color of Fall leaves (brown, or various shades thereof) it's easy to get excited about the little things. I should have put some perspective in the picture because the yellow ones are almost as big as your hand.
I've decided raking leaves is not that bad of a chore. Due to our economic situation this year, I chose to rake them myself vs using the lawn service. And really, it's a fairly enjoyable bit of light exercise. The leaves themselves aren't heavy. The weather is usually nice and cool. The town comes and picks your leaves up a couple times during the season, so all you have to do is haul them out to the street and make a big pile in front of your house (I'm sure infuriating parents that we have at least one less parking spot in front of my house for school pickup). We had a huge wind storm yesterday - gusts were expected to be up to 45-50 mph - so all those big yellow leaves in the picture above finally fell out of the tree. I had first raked a week or so ago, and I added what I could this morning to the pile out front, cursing my luck that the town trucks came by just about in the middle of my hauling them out. We still have a small pile out back, plus some more still to fall, so if the town doesn't do another pickup we can at least mulch the flower beds with them.
The other thing in my yard that makes raking the leaves NOT always a pleasurable chore. Makes me see I need to get out a little more often with the pooper scooper. But how can you get mad at this cute face?
2 comments:
I did see some orange & yellow this year, but it lasted only about 48 hours. Texas is not big on fall.
I don't remember a prettier fall in our neck of the woods for a long time. There is yellow and red and even orange everywhere you look. Maybe it's because it took so long for them to change? Gabriel will be excited that you posted some leaf pictures.
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