Autumn falls

The carpet in my living room is white to off-white.

In my front yard there are three birch trees, arranged in the traditional triangle that birch trees are always planted in. Their little spade-shaped leaves burst out of the white trunks in the spring seemingly over night and suddenly the front yard is more green than anything.

Last weekend I opened the front door to get the mail and walked back inside. In the few seconds that the screen door was open the breeze had blown in a brown leaf which stuck out on the carpet like only the first brown leaf of the fall on a white carpet can.

Fall is hear and I love it.