Blankets and blankets of multicolored leaves that cover endless unraked lawns and unswept sidewalks. The month of October is the best time to experience this. Enough brightly colored orange, red, and yellow leaves have just catapulted themselves into the array of crunchy brown ones to keep people from wanting to clean up such beauty. Nonetheless, as kids, we were not only willing to help people rake their leaves, we would often knock on doors and beg to do it...for free. This gave us a great opportunity to achieve the goal of making the biggest leaf pile on the planet. We would often take a leaf pile from one house and transfer it over to the lawn next door, combining as many piles from the surrounding neighbor's yards together as we could. The best part about leaf piles is throwing your body onto the crunchy goodness of them, I would imagine the sound and the sensation is very much like belly flopping into a bowl of cornflakes.
Living in LA, I am deprived of this experience, and while I can happily do away with the season that follows, I can't help but miss the familiar snap, crackle and pop of Fall under my feet. *sniffle* *sniffle*
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