Leaf Pile!!

How beautifully leaves grow old.  How full of light and color are their last days.  
~John Burroughs

Mom and I raked up all of the leaves from our two big old silver maples in our front yard and piled them around one tree. We love raking leaves on a clear, sunny day. The air is crisp. The exercise is great. The reward is FUN!! Some of the neighborhood kids and I jumped around in the pile of leaves, whipping leaves into flight once again, and scattering leaves everywhere. Nightfall came. Mom and I pretended to be deer and nestled in to listen to the night's songs and relish in the warmth of the our autumn bed of leaves.