fall

it’s officially fall. it’s my favorite season.
it’s been a nice one thus far in northern california. Weather is mild. Rains haven’t come yet.
But most of the trees here are now scantily clad in the few fiery leaves just waiting to make their final descent.

BGP was watching pretty leaves fall off the trees one day with a blissful reminiscence painted across her face. She sighed as a particularly chopper-like leaf spiraled to the ground, and then she turned to me and said, “Don’t you remember when you were little and you and your friends would gather up all the leaves from the neighborhood, make a HUGE pile, and then take turns running and jumping into it?”

*pause accompanied by an incredulous look from me*

“Girl, I grew up on a tropical island. The only thing that fell from trees were coconuts.”