Love it … Hate it
You got to love the fall! The grass lands are subtle shades of purple and beige, the shrubs are bright reds, the trees are blazing yellows, oranges mixed with greens and browns all under brilliantly clear blue sky. You got to love it!
But the leaves won’t stay on the trees! What a waste of time and energy … raking leaves … argh!!! Hate it! We have a small lot but have 18 trees or big shrubs that all drop their leaves. Do they drop their leave at the same time? Oh no that would be too easy! The decorative trees are done, the hard maples half done, soft maple will go on for months, oaks won’t get good start till December, Mulberry trees are just starting now…. If the leaves would just stay on the trees!!!
Don’t get me wrong, I planted most of the trees in the yard and love them all but one. Love the trees, I could be a tree hugger if the need arose! But the leaves! Halloween day I raked a small area in the front yard and had leaves piled head high under one tree! Today I ran the mulcher over the yard several times. Now more leaves are falling. Where is that 50 mph wind when you need it!
Where is the best fall color?
I seen the fall colors in Colorado, Ozarks, Upstate New York and all along the Mississippi River, it is all good! But the best I’ve seen was in the north east corner of Alabama in the Desoto State Park and Little River Canyon area. The water falls, rocks, tree colors just gorgeous! I looked for pictures because I took a lot, but can not find them. If you search “Desoto” in top left corner of the blog you can see several pictures. These pictures are pre Picasa so are un touched! The amazing thing about the fall colors was that the locals that we talked too all said that it was not a good year because it had been too dry and color was sometimes brighter and the waterfalls were not running as strong as usual!
KP
5 comments:
Love the post, Kenny. I can literally see you grumbling in the front yard with a rake and a toothpick in your mouth.
How can you possibly forget the Fall leaves you saw in Tennessee...as the days passed the colors became more magnified and beautiful...Oh Ken...you're breaking my heart!!!
PS...I missed you guys so much this year!!!
We love the Leaves in the Smokeys as we travel through. It's great never to have to rake again, but still enjoy the beauty. I'm so sorry you're raking, that's just too much work. That's a great post!
We planted all the shrubs and trees around our home, and loved to admire them throughout the year. It caused a problem though, because we were spending so much time and money taking care of it all, we couldn't travel the way we wanted.
We fixed that by selling the house. We get to see more scenery and even get to drive by our old house fairly often.
How was your football weekend?
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