Why I'm exhausted and a picture of the butt of a peacock

[Mira]

My house along the fence has huge trees, and the leaves fall into my fenced back yard and have to be schlepped to the street on tarps.
The photos in no way show how much there is, but you get the idea.




I saw some wild peacocks last week, and was not in a position to go for good shots, but here is a nice butt

[NV Whino]

1. Nice butt

So happy I live in the boonies when it comes to leaf fall.

[Solly Mack]

2. The butt is watching us.

I don't get enough leaves to fill a small lawn bag. I sorta miss leaves. Sorta.

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Come visit me.

After a few days of trying to get all the leaves cleaned up, you will rejoice in your non-leaf existence. When I used to bag leaves, I would have over 60 bags, crammed full. I now mulch them and put them in the gardens. Still lots of work.

[Solly Mack]

8. Sounds fun but I think I'll just continue to sorta miss them. :)

Thanks, though.

Wow. 60 bags. I'd cry.

[libodem]

3. So beautiful

[liberal N proud]

5. I spent the weekend picking up leaves

1/2 acer if trees. They were 10 inches deep and are now piled 5 foot deep along the curb. My leaf blower shot craps before I was done.

snowing now.

[postatomic]

6. I feel your pain

I swear all the leaves on the block ended up in our yard. I spent 1/2 day doing the front yard.

[Mira]

7. I feel yours

I have a front yard as well, did not bother to show those piles. Every year all my family and friends disappear for a month before Thanksgiving. Nobody wants to help me - it's too huge.
So I read books on my ipod with my "ears" on. Lots of books.

[Celebration]

9. never heard of wild peacocks!

Only seen them in preserves, zoos, gardens, etc. Are these truly wild?? They are gorgeous, aren't they?

As for the leaves, Memphis makes you BAG all the leaves now. And we are a city of trees! So, I take the easy way out and hire someone to do the leaves. Of course it costs a small fortune, which is why I am so glad we are moving to a condo soon! In fact, I saw just a few leaves that needed to be swept off the condo patio today, and thought, oh, no, I will now have to do my own yard work. But five minutes with a broom would take care of it.

I'm busy with the upcoming move so not posting as much or even doing much photography at present. Hopefully I will be at it again by spring.

[Mira]

10. As long as the move does not take you too far from

the wonderful birds you photograph in their habitat. I hope and assume the move is what you want!

Calling the peacocks wild is wrong, I'm sure. I'm not knowledgeable about it but I do know it's a person or family in a neighborhood that has peacocks allowing them to be running wild. A normal American suburbia of moderate income housing, run over with peacocks. I saw them on roof tops, in the yards. I was there for about 5 min. and saw at least 30 of them. Beautiful, yes, but I don't know how I'd feel if my house were in that street.

You're still around, so take a minute away from packing because I want to see one of your San Francisco photos in the contest. Please.

[Celebration]

13. just adding

The BIG REASON I picked out this particular condo is that it is right across from the Green Line (bike and walking trail) that goes straight into Shelby Farms. There is also a city park about a block away and even a large park area near the condo. Now, Shelby Farms is huge, and even though I will be in easy walking distance to it, I am not sure that I would want to hike all the way to the area with the lakes and shore birds. I will have to review my options (bike, maybe, though I currently don't have a bike).

[Mira]

14. I'm relieved and glad that you

will be close to Shelby Farms. When you buy your bike on Craigslist just make sure it has a basket for your camera gear.
Once you're set, I'll throw my bike on the truck and visit. I may be exhausted from the leaf job, but the other side of the coin is that I'm in shape

[Scuba]

11. I like the pics of the leaves, but the Ted Cruz pic just doesn't flip my flapjacks.

[Callalily]

12. I truly feel for your Mira

about your leaves. In my previous home all my neighbors leaves seemed to end up in my back yard. I moved a few years ago and I thank my lucky stars each fall because I do not have to rake leaves anymore.

Interesting peacock perspective!