Today we went and paid a visit to a lady in a nursing home. It had been a couple of weeks since we had a chance to go and see her. After lunch with Melody's parents we met a friend who took some photos for us to use for a Christmas Card. Then off to my Mom's to rake up the leaves in her yard. That is the first pile I raked up. As you can see the final result was a whole lot of leaves in her yard. Ended up with seven bags full
Good heavens! What kind and how many trees does she have? That is a BUNCH of leaves.... Hey, no fair getting ahead of us.... We send out photo Christmas cards every year, and we don't have our photos for them for this year yet.... Gotta' get with the program!! (My parents started sending photo cards when my brother and I were small -- 1944 -- and,, between them and John and me, we've only missed three years between then and now..... and our daughter is the third generation to keep up the tradition!!)
It sure is that time of year again. Cool collage. My husband has been sucking them up with the lawnmower and dumping them on a compost heap we have in our backyard.
We never bag our leaves......just rake them up & put them in the green bin....that's when we have the time otherwise we just leave them to rot...good compost!
Nice diptych, it tells a story. I remember having to rake leaves when we lived in the UK. Luckily most of our trees are gum trees here and they don't lose their leaves in winter.
@aglennc Well we need to get a head start on the Christmas cards as it takes Melody awhile to chose the final photo. My Mom has a very large Crabapple Tree in her back yard. The front yard is covered in leaves from the trees in the surrounding area
@bkbinthecity We usually have our photos selected and cards ready to order at Costco by now. I'm the "photographer' and "addresser" of them, and I try to have them (and our accompanying letter and personal notes on each) ready to get our foreign ones (except Canada) in the mail the day or so before Thanksgiving. Try to get the rest mailed by about 12/10. May not happen this year. Haven't even started on any of it.
god bless you! but are all the trees around the neighbourhood done yet? because 7 bags in one go is not enough you know. there are still more to come, unless you've been there a couple times before. :-)
Ian