Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for September 18, 2023

No, I’m not gonna ‘like’ that. I’ve got a big yard and over a hundred trees.

Especially if you’re the one that has to rake and bag them.

And afterwards, the snow falls on the trees to charm us with its beauty. Then it falls—down your back!!

which means that you have actual work to do, Broomie!

I don’t have many trees at my place and I mow them up.

This is “The Year of the Giant Acorns” and the house has seven skylights.

The autumn leaves, drift by my window….

What is up must come down……………

The season is called Fall for a reason.

This would keep Snoopy in shape trying to puff the leaves onto the leaf pile!

There’s one in the back yard with branches that overhang the back end of our roof. The seed pods in the spring and the leaves in the fall—it won’t let me get my mind out of the gutter.

At least the is very thoughtful and dumps it’s load all at the same time.

Yup, and I just mulch them with my lawn mower.

Lucky you. It happened all at once,…..

from charming to annoy some people…seems like the sum up of a lot of love stories in it’s own way.

So it is: Beauty falls….

I knew a fella in Cary, NC who had that dilemma. Owned a 5 acre lot with a big f’in house and fifteen hundred of our beloved (I lived in Raleigh at the time, now in Nevada) little spindly Carolina Pine trees known to snap like matchsticks in a good blow. He cut them all down about 4 feet above ground – every last one of them. Until the town forester got involved it looked like a pine tree lawn…