Our neighborhood park is full of oak trees. And this weekend, we discovered that the oak leaves have been put into one big, huge pile of leaves. Since the pile is 20-30 feet in diameter and 3+ feet deep, it was more like a pool of leaves!
We made several visits to the leaf pool over the weekend. It was so fun to watch Bryan toss the kids a few feet in the air and see them diasappear, “woosh!” in a puff of leaves.
We hunted for each other. Bryan and I dove in and disappeared. The leaves were dry and fluffy. They smelled like oak and autumn and life. Lying burried beneath them, I felt warm and safe and insulated…until Andrew or Sylvia found me!
The kids wanted face paint on Saturday, so the pictures are of two leopards playing in the leaves.
Note: This post was all thumb-typed on my iPhone. Only three more days without Internet!
That is a HAPPY pile of leaves!