I keep seeing people post pictures of beautiful fall foliage near thier homes.  This is, literally, the view out my front window.  I just looked out the window and snapped the picture.  All our trees around here are either pretty much green or dead.

That field across the street doesn’t look like much right now but in the summer it is packed full of wild flowers.  And the trees at the back, in the fall, are usually bright yellow and red.  There is a creek that runs right in front of the line of trees and it keeps ours and our neighbor’s houses from flooding.  Right now we have foxes living there and we can see them running around sometimes.  It makes me really angry that, by this time next year, there will be houses there.  I always said that if I had the money I would buy that field and just let it grow wild.

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