November is trying, but not really winning any points with me today

A moment of pretty….

…discovered while dealing with the ugly….

Raking leaves today. That photo above shows but a fraction of the 4 giant tarploads of leaves I’ve hauled out of my front yard today from the dreadful sycamore tree. I really dislike that tree this time of year! I mean really, look at the size of these leaves:

And there is exactly 9,786,584,001 of them! I counted! 😉