DUers, I would like to say I too am leaving.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

They've just accumulated to the point where something needs to be done. The yard just looks messy.

Also, screw you, Dr. Strange. You mayonnaise loving Rush freak.

[brucefan]

1. Lol

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Happy dance, happy dance!

I had my giant maple cut down last winter. This is the first year spent without endless rounds of raking and dragging dozens of cans of leaves out back to the compost. The apples and remaining cherry are small enough that I don't even bother to rake their leaves.

[72DejaVu]

3. I stick to the "Hey, free mulch" approach myself.

[HereSince1628]

4. LEAF FREE OR DIE!

[demwing]

5. Its autumn

The leaves are destined to fall.

[DFW]

6. Otherwise known as "turning over an old leaf."

A couple hundred thousand of them, by the looks of it.

[longship]

7. Falling leaves are a part of the natural cycle of life on Earth.

I find leaf rakers and lawn mowers to be equally against nature.

I never mow or rake on my acre of land. It is gloriously natural. I have wild flowers during many months of the year, something people who worship a manicured lawn never, ever experience. (I love dandelions!) Then, there's the morel mushrooms on my little acre. Yummy!

Raking leaves is futile, as are lawns. Both are pointless.

I like what many do in Arizona. They plant cactus and let it all go natural.

[KittyWampus]

8. You mean it's Dr. Strange who is the cause of all these freaking leaves falling?

-CURSES-

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. It is.

He even wrote a Chick Track about it.

[underpants]

10. It's fall now. Out West, the aspens will already be turning.

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They turn in clusters because their roots connect them. Come back to work - to life


Excerpted from Scooty Libby's poem to Judith Miller.

[dreamnightwind]

13. Truly a classic, spook poetry.

[Scuba]

11. I feel your pain.

And am glad you can enjoy such beauty.

[treestar]

12. lol

[Ron Obvious]

14. I thought you'd be making like a tree...

... and getting outta here.