These were actually the redhead nextdoors' leaves. I featured her last week, all tall and proud.
Ironically, my neighbors had raked and blown their leaves up the night before only to have a thick carpet of more leaves the next day. A red carpet. And their neighbor crept over during the day while they were gone to lay down on the red carpet to photo it's beautiful color in the light. What a strange neighbor to have.
Last year at this time, the house was vacant so I was able to creep over freely for this shot. Ha...here was last years under the tree shot...I must have taken it a littler earlier as this years leaves are drier and crunchier: http://365project.org/amandal/365-year-2/2014-11-12