One Day of Fall

This fall was really weird. It was super warm. Then it snowed like two feet, breaking a lot of branches in all the trees around town - they still had all of their leaves, and the branches couldn't handle the weight of both leaves and snow. I still need to go saw off a few hanging branches in our own backyard, actually...

Anyways. So then the trees all dropped their leaves in, like, one day. It wasn't gradual. I decided to take advantage of the billions of leaves in my yard and rake them all up into an enormous pile for the kids to jump in.

Unfortunately, there were 30 mph winds that day, so many of the leaves I raked blew right out of the pile and back against the chain-link fence, but oh well.

The kiddos jumped in the leaves when they got home from school:

I love this picture:

It was so windy and cold - Micah preferred to watch from inside:

But the temptation got to him, and he ran only to the outer edge of the pile, holding Sadie's purse, and squealing joyously:

He's such a girly-man.

The very next day, before I had the chance to put the leaves into garbage bags, it snowed like two feet again. Those leaves are still sitting there, under our big maple tree in our backyard, with deep layer of snow on top of them. That area of the lawn is going to be soooo D-E-A-D in the spring. Sad. Not that our lawn was the picture of lush health, anyways... I suppose I should attempt to scoop up both leaves and snow and bag them up, but let's face it - I just really don't have the energy to do that. I think I'd rather have a dead patch of grass than do that. :)