Leaf Me

Here're some leaves from around my yard today. The sample includes: ecliesiastic, oak, lilac, maple, ash, and bamboo. I looked for the best I could find, n this was it! Previous years were much better pickins!I had the scanner hooked up today anyway, working on another project. The strong winds this pm are carrying most of the leaves quickly away down the hill.

I finally almost see a little color out there in the couple a hundred trees across the street. I found my first faintly red-tinted Maple leaf this fall thus far on my deck yesterday, only one. The rest are mottley-brown and yellow. In the past this maple tree has displayed brilliant yellows and oranges used in popular family photo backgrounds. One oak tree leaning over the road is loaded with rusty-orange-red-brown, but the rest are still green, n dropping their leaves green or dead brown.
The color has been very dim. It was also like this here in '91, the year of hurricane Bob, so perhaps the persistant rain-storms n lack of sunlight conspired to rob the usual effects.

I remember one long ago autumn filling up a 9x12 manilla envelope with pretty leaves every shape n color of the rainbow, and sending them to an ill, hospital-bound person who'd expressed missing the colors. If it'd been this year's batch, they would not 've seen any good ones!

Bland, without spice! Like chicken soup without garlic and tyme. Missing the joyful, loud, natural color show I've been spoiled with many years.