GOING...........(photo below taken a week ago)
GOING...........(photo below taken three days ago)
GONE......(photo below taken today)
The photos above were all taken of the same maple tree in my front yard over the last few days. Once the leaves started falling, they went fairly quickly this year. No need for concern though. The front yard is once again safe for the squirrels
and for the little dogs who want to cross the yard without a fear of drowning in the leaf river.
The river of leaves in the front yard from three days ago
as can be viewed below from looking out my front door.
The river has been raked up into a mountain down in the street out front. 
It was already getting dark when I finished Friday night. Since the time change, it gets dark even earlier now. When I raked that day, the sun was shining and the temperature was a gorgeous 70 degrees. Today it is gray outside, the temperature is 36 degrees, and we are getting what the weathermen in these parts like to call a wintry mix. A wintry mix is a combination of rain, freezing rain, drizzle, tiny ice pellets, and snow.
Time to get out your hats and gloves and button up your overcoat, my friends. Here's a bit of timely advice in song from Captain Kangaroo, whose show I used to watch every weekday when I was a young girl.
