However we do have a few leaves

This is my backyard after most of the leaves have fallen in mid-November. There are still leaves on the trees but many have already fallen. The golden maples and the red maples are the prettiest, but the oaks and walnuts and other hardwoods are beautiful also. The problem of course, is that you have to rake them up.

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We normally have to blow the leaves or rake them or drag them in a tarp from the back yard to the front and pile them up on the curb. The city has a leaf pickup service that comes by twice during the Fall to vacuum up your leaves off the curb. They don't tell you exactly when they are coming, but they publish a schedule of when they will be in your area. My area is pending and will be next.

My son Darren visited me just in time to help me drag up the first batch to the curb. The leaves have not all fallen yet, so there will be many more to rake, but that's the price you pay for the beautiful color we enjoy. It becomes a part of your lifestyle and it actually is good exercise for old guys like me. (Not sure Darren would agree).

 

 

 

Cheryl likes to capture nature's little oddities, like leaves that are twice as large as your hand and azaleas that bloom in mid- November. We have thousands of acorns buried under the leaf piles and dozens of squirrels to dig them out.

 

 

The sun sets on another beautiful day in the Piedmont, maybe I can rake some more leaves tomorrow.