THE STALWART OAK LEAVES

After the two day wind storm took down all the maple and birch leaves only the tough oak leaves remain. The oak gave up maybe a third of its foliage but what remains now will take its damn time to depart the branches. This happens every year: you get the majority of leaves out of the way but then the stubborn oak becomes the gift that keeps giving, sometimes until early Spring. And boy, who doesn't like a mess of brown leaves littering newly fallen snow?