Autumn Lover Gifts

Neighbors tossing leaves over fence.

"Boy would you look at those colors? It's amazing, isn't it?"

Now that's what I call a big tree.

We have shade trees sign in window of garden supply. We have rakes in window of hardware store.

Brilliant reds & oranges. Muted golds & ochres.

"It's okay...lots of us realize we hate pumpkin martinis after the holidays."

Executive Conkers.

Man with leaf-blower looking at tree with single leaf.

'This month I'll be cooked & my bones ripped apart in a wishing contest.'

"Not So Fast!"

Man waiting for final leaf of autumn to fall.

Leaf Firemen Catching Falling Leaf.

Violinist in Autumn

Bonfire

"That's very offensive."

"Trick or treat?"

"When it comes to beautiful pumpkins, you didn't make the cut."

Apples (Les Pommes)

Leaf raker sets fire to tree - the source of his anguish.

Witch Bonfire

"Nothing like that first sweater of the season, 'ay Nance?"

Squirrel Football

'Mom! Evan keeps calling the pumpkin pulp, 'brains.'

Library. Ernie, the book on the fall of the Roman empire is not a collection of autumn foliage pictures from lands that were controlled by Julius Caesar.

Well, here it comes, one final indignity.

"He's almost finished raking. Everyone jump in three... two... one..."

Autumn Statement

"I'm afraid I may have murdered the trees."

Basic Instinct

A tree with leaves; a rake standing upright in a pile of leaves.

Treat yo'self to a cauldron full of pumpkin-spice lattes!!!

"I'll see your two and raise you three."

Squirrels Stockpiling Mulling Spices for Winter

"It's how he would have wanted to go."

A large leaf falling on a dog