Off-Season Fun

We don't have fall here. We do have the start of the school year (although it's at the end of July), and we do have Halloween and Thanksgiving and all that. We just don't have seasons. Not really, anyway. We don't really get a fall or a winter or a spring. So far as I can tell, we have summer and cooler-and-rainier-summer. But even though we don't have fall, we do have leaves!

Last week, while Madeline was taking a morning nap, Kathleen and I headed outside for a bit of yardwork. After we'd watered our flowers (they're still doing great, Grandpa!), we decided to rake up all the stray leaves in the backyard. At first Kathleen just wanted to play with the rake. Eventually, though, she decided the leaves were more fun...

Crunching the leaves...

Whoops!

"Cover up me, Mama!"

Just imagine when she sees autumn on the mainland!