A Labour Of Leaves

The autumn tasks are definitely getting tougher, we think back with longing to the quieter days of summer when the mowing and hoeing was almost soporific. Not so Mondays work load of mulching the round border with compost, of course it started to rain half way through making each barrow load heavier as the morning progressed. We had a change come the afternoon as the rain steadily persisted, it is the time of year for collecting leaves. This can be a pleasant if monotonous chore especially if the sun is shinning and each leaf is crunchy and light as air, however yesterdays leaves were sodden and heavy, making the petrol blower work twice as hard, not to mention us girls! Still we know how much good it will do our compost heap over the winter and it's all for free as long as we have the energy to go on collecting. However it will be slightly disconcerting when we arrive back on Saturday and view the lawns we so painstakingly cleared yesterday, because I know it will look as if we had never been there, a Sisyphean task indeed!

"Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world any more. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf" Albert Schweitzer