Little Pile of Leaves

Most of the trees in the greenbelt behind our house are Evergreens, so we fortunately don't get a huge number of leaves in our yard in the Fall that need raking. But we have one beautiful small-leafed maple tree in the yard, that loses all its tiny little leaves in October/November and attempts to make up for the lack of other deciduous trees. It is lush green in the summer, and the colors in the fall are bright and lovely. It gives shade in the evenings, Ben can monkey around in it, and it provides enough leaves in the fall for a few little piles to jump in. Most of the leaves fell off in the big wind storm that knocked over the other leafy tree, but there were still a few that held their ground, or their branch, as it were. Sadly, the wind today blew these last little clutching leaves off the tree, and scattered them all over the yard and patio. Ben, Josh and I set to raking them up to make the yard pretty for our potential buyers. But before they retired to the yard waste bin, we thought it only fair that the boys get to un-rake them a bit too!