Leaf time!

It's that time of year again!  October means beautiful leaves.  With ten mature, deciduous trees (one locust, two ash and seven maples) in our yard, we certainly have plenty of them!  This week is the peak of fall color and is also perfect weather--sunny and 80 degrees with a strong enough breeze to keep away any bugs. 

The kids & I have started to do some recreational raking--that is enough to make a leaf pile to play in but no major clean-up.  Both of them have enjoyed spending a lot of time outside doing this.  Emily mostly wants to pile the leaves up while Lincoln likes to spread them around.  They both enjoyed piling them on top of my head!  Fall leaves = photo-ops galore.  Here are some of my favorites from the last two days: