Leaves!!!! It Has Begun.

The leaves started falling fast and furious last week as if a switch was flippled. Usually leaf fall starts slowly and gradually builds but this year almost every tree seemed to start dropping it's leaves at the same time. We will begin cleaning leaves now and will finish in May right before graduation. Our leaf removal season is so long because the live oaks whose canopies cover our campus will drop leaves all spring. They start losing leaves around the time most deciduous trees stop. We have to remove leaves daily to keep on top of it. We put all our leaves in the a dumpster that is trucked away to a giant compost pile. You will have the pleasure of seeing many leaf removal pictures in the next six months.

Yellow leaves on redbuds

Rosebel removing red oak leaves from Blanton's entrance.

Bright red, orange, and yellow leaves from a Bradford pear.

Abraham's pile of Chinese pistache leaves at Hughes Trigg

Rosebel and Ek blowing leaves into a pile.

Rosebel

Leaving Mrs. Bairds

Cleaning up tissue paper from the homecoming floats at Mrs. Bairds. Blowing little pieces of tissue paper in the wind ain't easy. I had dust all over my face, body, and in my mouth.

Joel and Roberto blowing tissue paper.

Getting the billy goat off the truck.

Roberto blowing tissue paper. Most of it blew under the fence and onto the service road. As Roberto said most of the paper is probably blowing around downtown now.