Leaves

Leaves make sounds when they fall.
Some sound like machine guns "rat-a-tat-ta" when they fall on the deck.
Some hit the pavement while Pickles and I were walking on Thanksgiving Day. "Blat", "Blat" - big thick leaves hitting the pavement. A nice back drop to an after dinner walk.
Leaves are curling now. Ones that fell a few weeks ago are 1/3 their size. The sound they make now is more of a sigh. "Whew", or "whoosh" is all gone out of them now. They lie there waiting for winter rain to break them down and turn them into soil.

A few weeks ago we raked and broomed the entire driveway. Under some leaves there was a partial pile of soil already.

I don't rake leaves from the yard - too much lost effort. The winds will come and they'll be flown away. Into the neighbors garden, into our bamboo forest, into the woods behind our house. Why rake when nature's Rake will soon be here?

Leaves at the end of their lives say "thanks".

Middle of Fall Pictures

Wow! Halloween already.

My absolute least favorite holiday. A bunch of over-fed, over-pampered kids getting even more excuses to go to the dentist.

Now, even as a kid, I was sick on Halloween a lot and didn't get to go out trick-or-treating often. Once Mom took Sis and I Uptown to the RICH people's homes. We got nice stuff that one year.

I really hated getting home-made stuff - cookies, candy apples, etc. I loved a whole 5-cent candy bar. Very rare!

I don't like a lot of holidays because they're forcing us to be commercial. Now this one is growing to Christmas size in cost per person. I spent maybe $3.49 on a token bag of candy. We had zero t-or-t's this year.

Radar Online

I put "Radar" on my blog so I can prove that hardly anybody visits it! HA!

First Day of Fall

Mushrooms in a Compost Pile Like Little Mountains

Simply Mushrooms
Growing Randomly
Creating Compost
The Old-Fashioned Way

Two in A Cloud

I see a man on the left, with a woman on the right reaching for each other above the mountains in my back yard.