Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for November 10, 2019

You’ve just fallen for others. Best to leave.

A timeless tale, old as the hills.

The next thing you know, they’ll be gone with the wind.

Mulch anyone??

I married a pine…they’re green forever.

This just wasn’t an evergreen relationship.

So he’s not the only fall guy…..so to speak. To be politically correct they are both fall persons.

Boy, they’re really raking up the compliments to each other here! Won’t be long before both of them really get burnt up!

Fifty shades of autumn….

Chloro & Phil just weren’t the same after the “change”.

Look at that old photosynthesis.

Looks like all the chlorophyll has gone out of their marriage.

Looks like May and Paul. They do this every year.

Message to the leaves: It happens to all of us. But as Dan Fogelberg wrote:

“Though the bindings crack,

And the pages start to yellow,

I’ll be in love with you . . . "

— Longer

(Our wedding song. 35th anniversary coming up in April.)

I’m reminded of a chapter of Felix Salten’s Bambi (original 1929 book, pre-Disney), in which we are allowed to eavesdrop on the conversation of the last two leaves on a tree, in late autumn, as they contemplate the end of their lives. Lovely piece of writing.

Honey, I am turning over a new leaf, or rather – I am leaving you for one.

It appears they’re both pretty steamed, because you can see the veins in the heads.