Dark Side of the Horse by Samson for September 19, 2021

I have woods on one side of my property. The leaves from the woods blow across my yard then blow back like a leaf tide.

Nice try…

It’s the circle of leaves

And it moves us all

Through despair of dopes

Through fail of move

’Til we find our peace

On the path untidy

In the circle

The circle of leaves

Quite a b r e e z e

Where do these leaves keep coming from?

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind

It’s like the leaves seemed to notice that it was …

… “greener on the other side of the fence”.

Must be a sisyphean hill.

Panel 2: Brilliant.

got a match Horace… really, what could go wrong…?

Much like my yard every fall.. and I don’t even have any trees..

The grass is orangeier on the other side of the fence.

Too much to unpack again for a Sunday. More coffee than usual:

1. Nature being Captain Obvious again?

2. This is the kind of self-awareness I observe so often … So close…

3. The grass is always greener. Even in fall.

The migration of the leaves is scheduled for moon o’clock.

Out of frame…. Some PITA with a leaf blower

Where on Earth do you get that kind of Fall change to your trees and yet still have full sunlight at either 4 am or 9 pm?

“There is no god but Murphy…”

Here in Raleigh, we have trees (poplars and mimosas for example) that drop leaves every season except for the most dead of winter. The poplars just got done with their “summer is hot and I am stressed and cranky” leaf-drop phase but they aren’t done yet – not until November. My neighbor just started blowing his leaves to the curbline which is very early because we usually don’t get a pickup from the city until right before Christmas (sometimes not until after the new year). Trouble is that he blows them into the road and the cars driving by inevitably bring them to my curbline because our property is at what seems to be a perfect point for leaves to build up, but not move on. So it becomes my problem.