Nature's Cleaner Upper

December 1st.

Dead leaves were still hanging on.

But.

this morning.

The rain and wind the last couple of days

have done a wonderful job

of clearing out

the dead leaves from the oak trees.

Which means that I can get outside

and rake my paths and the driveway

and not have them 

covered up with leaves again

inside of a few days

and have to rake them all over again and again.

I'm old and lazy and now wait each year

for the wind and rain to 

clear out the trees

before I get outside and rake.

Acres of oak leaves out there.