A New Look For The Yard

The emerald green grass of summer is now completely covered over by the beautiful copper, gold and brown leaves of fall. Since we have a large number of trees in our yard, we have piles and piles of leaves. They are a pain to rake up and discard but they are gorgeous now, covering everything. My adorable grandchildren came over this afternoon and threw leaves at each other and kicked them into the sky, running and laughing the whole time. It was so much fun to watch them thoroughly enjoying themselves in the bounties of nature. I've mentioned before that I am not thrilled that the wonderful summer season is over. Next week I believe it will be time for the clocks to be set back and that will mean that it is dark before 6 at night. Ugh. I loved the summer nights when it doesn't get dark until almost 10 p.m . Well, I had better get used to it - in another 6 weeks it will be dark around 4:30 in the afternoon. That is so not good.