enjoying the fall leaves

October 21, 2009

We have a very teeny yard. You can see a couple photos of it here & here. There are no majestic trees that rain down brilliant leaves in fall. Well, there is the neighbor's tree just over the fence but it's leaves fall too little and too late.

For real fall leaf play we go to the college, just blocks from here, where Daddy works. The real piles haven't even started accumulating there yet as the leaves are just now starting to fall.

There is a huge green space ("the quad" it's called) graced with stately old oaks and maples. I think most of the elms died years ago with the Dutch Elm disease outbreak that took so many old trees from these neighborhoods.

Yesterday morning, though the skies were gray (today of course is beautifully sunny and I'm moaning over the sunlit leaf photos that could of been) we walked, biked and strollered over with stuffed dogs and dolls to run, jump and play.