God is My Lawn Service

Nearly every Autumn, the great and powerful God of the Prevailing West Winds comes to our house and cleans up the leaves.

As you can see in this picture, the leaves in the front yard were all neatly blown to the roadside where the DPW will eventually come and finish the job.

Kathy and I have, year after year, found ourselves increasingly prone to simply waiting, rather than raking. A couple of years ago, all the leaves ended up in a great big pile on the back side of the house. Truly, if we had raked and piled them up there ourselves, it couldn't have been a more thorough job.

Some years, admittedly, this just doesn't happen at all. But this year we talked about how we should wait.

Last night, lying in bed, we both heard the wind and looked at each other and smiled...

This shot shows how the leaves are mostly piled up in the back yard today, as well.

It's not quite as thorough a job, though, and we'll have to either let the wind continue to do its magic, or maybe end up doing the rest of it ourselves.

Besides, there are still a good percentage of leaves on the trees that will pretty much undo this whole thing over the next week or two. It certainly does make procrastination the logical choice, though...