Wednesday, November 26, 2008

new england traditions: fallen foliage

Everyone likes leaf-peeping in New England. "Oooh, pretty fall foliage," etcetera. But here is the thing: that fall foliage falls off the trees living one big mess. We have sort of perfected the fine art of procrastination when it comes to leaf collection (much to our neighbors' dismay).

We basically rake our leaves once a year. It seems sort of futile to do it any more than that, what with all the maple trees in our yard. In any case, the one time a year we actually do it, it's pretty fun (I suppose it's easy to say that when you are not the one doing the leaf collecting; but, there you are). The Pup was very excited to rake up leaves (or pretend to).

But he was even more excited to play in the piles.

A couple more leaf shots in flickr, because, you know, that is what we do.

1 comment:

The "M" Family said...

Nova, I love the last picture of Anderson. If you abhor raking the leaves even once a year, hire someone to do it for you and then Anderson can play in it while they're raking. Is that lazy?