A new feature, this one set to appear once each month if I can pull it off. This is the video of the month, or more appropriately the video to set the tone. This month’s theme: leaves.
When I showed that to The Yankee she was stunned I covered my iPhone lens. They’re just leaves. And then she said something about how only I would record this. Well, yeah, maybe. But then I put in that pull focus at the end and she isn’t laughing any more.
As I raked I wondered why man hasn’t come up with a better way to do this. Just imagine if we’d attacked this problem with the same fervor with which we’ve faced other challenges or ills. If John Kennedy had said that we chose to deal with leaves not because they were easy, but because they were hard …
In my yard, they aren’t easy. I have a small rake.
The nice lady who visited my neighbor while I was raking observed that I did not even have any leaves yet, really. Probably 90 percent of the leaves are still in the trees, as you can see in the video. There are plenty of gray maple leaves, curled like an old man’s arthritic fingers, mixed in with the flat brown of the willow oak leaves.
But, still, half the yard got down as I shot that footage. You should have seen the outtakes.
Class prep today, blurb writing today, video editing today, reading today. The typical Monday barrage of things that make the day so fulfilling.
I opened a watermelon tonight, perhaps the last of the season. Seedless — may contain seeds, the sticker says — and delicious. I’m not ready to concede the season. The mild weather is nice, the open windows and the evening breeze are certainly welcome, but the shortening days and the impending chill could hold off another four months.
And by then it’d be March.
