Leaf it to Me

The leaves are falling. People are putting them in bags and putting them on the street. The ones from our yard get picked up with the bagging lawn mower and used for mulch or added to the compost pile. Some of the ones people put on the street wind up in my garden or my compost too. Some people even put pine needles out. Those are used to top the mulch in the front yard and make it look like we spent money.

Other leaves are coming out instead of coming down. Today’s lunch includes mixed greens. Last night’s supper was a garden salad made with arugula, onions and radishes from the garden. There were tomatoes too. They were small but tasty. The radish greens went into the mixed greens for lunch. Mesclun leaves will be in the next salad.

The bugs are not usually too bad in the fall. I hope the larger wild life will leaf me alone.

David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/