This morning (okay, so it’s afternoon, gimme a break. It’s Sunday which means that morning extends until about 2 p.m.) I’ve been sitting at my computer in my jammies futzing around and listening to the wind blow. I looked up through the window over my left shoulder at one point and discovered an odd precipitation.
\nJust over our east property line is a maple tree that must be 40 years old. I love this tree not only for its inherent beauty as a tree, but for the ten thousand pounds of leaves that it provides my garden every fall. The neighbors don’t mind at all that I rake the leaves on their property. \ud83d\ude42
\nBeing so close to Puget Sound we usually get all of our weather from the west or the northwest. Prevailing winds are almost always in an east\/southeast direction. This morning the wind has been from the southeast which means that the maple seed helicopters that usually fly east on a west wind were flying west to cross my window.<\/p>\n
A five minute (or more) maple shower. Thousands of little helicopters catching the wind and flying quite astonishing distances. I watched one get all the way across the street and out of my sight behind the neighbor’s house. With a steady breeze it could still be flying along.
\nIt was wonderful.<\/p>\n
Spring and summer are usually way more my thing. But I’ll admit there are parts of fall that I can appreciate too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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