Fall Rain

The recent rains have almost stripped all of the beautiful leaves off the trees, leaving them bare and ready for a long, dreary winter.  Don't get me wrong, there is nothing I love more than waking up to a beautiful, fresh winter snow blanketing the earth.  It makes everything look so fresh and clean.  The problem is that we generally get ice instead of snow.  I can live without ice.

The leaves were beautiful this fall, nicer than I can remember in recent years.  I think it must be due to the fact that we had a really mild summer.  Some days the high didn't get out of the 70's.  No August heat this year.

I took this picture this past Sunday.  Saturday was a beautiful sunny day, but Sunday brought more rain.  I stepped out on my driveway near the street to capture the beautiful leaves before they gave up and let the rain wash them off the trees.  I love the contrast between the oranges, yellows, and browns of the leaves with the dark blues and grays of the storm clouds coming in.  You also get a peek at some of the other houses in my neighborhood.  Most of the houses were built in the late 1950s and early 1960s.  Too bad that overgrown monstrosity of a bush of my neighbor's is in the way.