In past years, I remember the leaves falling from the maple trees and into our yard as a very scheduled and orderly process--leaves would fall, and on the weekend, we'd go and rake them up and put them in the compost. The yard usually looked fairly tidy, and after a couple of months (at least by Thanksgiving), the trees were bare and the leaves were gone from the yard.
However, this year, all-out chaos reigns in our yard! We've had a lot of rain and wind, and in the span of a couple of weeks, almost ALL of the leaves have fallen from the trees and into the yard. When I surveyed the damage last evening, I really didn't know where to start. The leaves are so deep that I can no longer see the lawn.
Tomorrow, the first order of the day is to get the leaf blower out and start fighting back the sea of leaves that has invaded my Maltby yard. I'll make cinnamon rolls and hot cider to get us through the task, and we'll have a chance to once again savor the Slow Life as we experience Fall in all its glory, up close and personal.
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