Fall Leaves

Today most of the leaves have fallen from our trees and when I went out to take care of them, Camdyn eagerly wanted to help pile them. She worked diligently using mostly her hands to collect a bundle of leaves at a time and add them to the pile. Her goal was to make a pile larger than the one she has seen on the way to school. Around here, the residents pile their leaves along the road and the city comes by in trucks that suck them up and haul them away. While the leaves wait, this creates a condition along the neighborhood roads similar to snow banks after plowing. Here in North Carolina, its the closest thing we have to snow banks along the roads, and just as annoying to drive through. Anyway, in short order, her pile was made and a picture taken of her accomplishment.

She performed the ceremonial dive.

And then was joined by her sisters for a group dive.

Once they were done I prepared to mulch the leaf pile, but Camdyn did not want this to happen and made her stand.

However, she soon saw that the mulching was inevitable, even without the need to sing "The Circle of Life". She decided if she can't beat them, join them.

And so with this fall tradition behind us, it is almost time to move on to the next one. That's right, we are packing up and heading to sunny Florida for a week.