Fall leaves

 

Mondays are leaf pick up days in Western Springs.  City workers push the leaves into piles with an enormous basket and another piece of equipment (never seen) picks them off the street.  For the last two weeks, I have had to ride around increasingly large piles on my bike to work.

Trees are surrounded by "pools" of leaves.  This pool, across the street from the house, has "waves" or "tides" in it.  This was a tree that a week or two ago was gorgeously orange.

Some ginko trees (but not all) dump all of their leaves at the first freeze.  This image looks like something by Klimt.