Well, the wind came during the night. Many trees this morning are completely bare. Lots more leaves on the ground, some drifted now by the wind. As I neared the end of my walk, a slight mist began falling. It is now a thick mist. Today's rain and wind will bring down many more leaves.
Here is a quote from Annie Dillard in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that amuses me. I don't know whether Mother Nature would find it equally amusing: "Nature is, above all, profligate. Don't believe them when they tell you how economical and thrifty nature is, whose leaves return to the soil. Wouldn't it be cheaper to leave them on the tree in the first place? This deciduous business alone is a radical scheme, the brainchild of a deranged manic-depressive with limitless capital. Extravagance!...This is a spendthrift economy; though nothing is lost, all is spent."
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