The Last Fall Leaf

 

This might not actually be the last leaf to fall but it is the only one I saw that still had color. The trees around our house have lost all their leaves for some time now. The box elder tree outside my window always has a lot of seeds in bunches that never seem to drop off until the new seeds start appearing at the end of the summer. Because we have a stretch of "wild" forest next to our house, we have a view of all the fallen leaves and the branches and tree trunks on the ground from years past. Over the past few years, the deer trail outside my window has taken on the look of an established and maintained trail through the woods. Now I guess we are on our way to winter whatever that means in the middle of an extended drought.