Undappled of leaves

 

Brian Stauffer - "Winds of Change"

From New Yorker's Cover Story:

For the cover of the October 13, 2025, issue, the artist Brian Stauffer chose to see the beauty in what many consider a noisy nuisance. “One of the things I love about the city is the endless stream of ephemeral and serendipitous moments,” Stauffer said. “I’m always grateful when I slow down long enough to notice them.”

Here are some of the things I've noticed in the last couple days.

1. Home sick. 9:08. John Deere with a front yellow basket pushing leaves into big pile at the corner.
2. Most of the locust leaves on the tree in the front yard came down yesterday, the 26th of Oct, in a steady stream. Leaving a Lacey filagre light coming into the front room
3. A massive heavy dump truck rumbles by. Filled with leaves which flutter from the bed. 10:10
4. 10:00. It only takes two minutes for the loud blowers to push all the pretty leaves from the lawn to the curb
5. Down the street pretty yellow apron of leaves.
6. Golden lawns, brown lawns. The time for raking has suddenly begun!
7. Two minutes of high-pitched revving in the lawn is cleared of the pretty dappled leaves. Is undappled by leaves. "Glory be to God for dappled things--"