Fall...

Tomorrow is the last leaf pickup day in our neighborhood, and today I got behind the leaf-blower-picker-upper-shooter thing. It's probably good for me to be stuck between vehicles long enough to get over wasting time and start savoring the finer moments in each season of life. Even having to sit behind two ugly slow-moving pieces of road maintenance equipment for ten minutes made me thankful that our fast-paced society still allows the leaves to fall in their own time. I guess if they wanted, they could probably in the name of efficiency just devise some truck to vaccuum all the leaves off the trees before they clutter up our lawns and re-nickname the season "Suck..."