{"id":838,"date":"2006-11-22T10:26:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T10:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/22\/the-other-side-of-fall\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T10:26:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T10:26:24","slug":"the-other-side-of-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/22\/the-other-side-of-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Side of Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flip side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/fall_colors.php\">pretty colors<\/a> I posted about yesterday is that all those nicely colored leaves fall down. Which isn&#8217;t a big deal with the little ornamental maple in the front yard, but when the fifty-foot oak tree in the back drops its leaves, it kind of makes a mess.<\/p>\n<p>We deal with this in the traditional manner: we pay the next-door neighbors&#8217; teenage son to rake the leaves up, and drag them out in front of the house. I didn&#8217;t get a picture of the whole pile, but it was close to three feet high, and stretched the full length of the front yard. Most of the houses in the neighborhood had similar piles, so the streets were all lined with knee-high berms of leaves, like defensive works against the oncoming winter.<\/p>\n<p>And then, every couple of weeks, they bring out the leaf vacuum:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/467\/files\/2012\/04\/i-96623e0411068bc6ab110b2a128b1525-sm_leaf_vacuum.jpg\" alt=\"i-96623e0411068bc6ab110b2a128b1525-sm_leaf_vacuum.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is shot through the front window, and shows the town highway department with the enormous vacuum attachment they use to suck up the piles of leaves on the side of the road. They were almost finished by the time I got the camera, so you can only see a tiny fraction of the original pile, but it&#8217;s an impressive operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flip side of the pretty colors I posted about yesterday is that all those nicely colored leaves fall down. Which isn&#8217;t a big deal with the little ornamental maple in the front yard, but when the fifty-foot oak tree in the back drops its leaves, it kind of makes a mess. We deal with&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/22\/the-other-side-of-fall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Other Side of Fall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}