Leaf

I better fucking write these down.

What was the first one? Leaf.

Alright, hold on.

We'll be back with the last one.

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Our Village, volume one, Walks in the Country, part 14, The Fall of the Leaf.

November 6th, the weather is as peaceful today, as calm, and as mild as in early April, and perhaps an autumn afternoon and a spring morning do resemble each other more in feeling and even in appearance than any two periods of the year.

There is in both the same freshness and dewiness of the herbage, the same balmy softness in the air, and the same pure and lovely blue sky with white fleecy clouds floating across it.

Scaly buds, those which have protecting scales, which are altered leaves or bases of leaves.

Leaf buds, contain or give rise to leaves, and develop into a leafy shoot.

Flower buds, contain or consist of blossoms and no leaves.

Mixed buds, contain both leaves and blossoms.

A dehiscent fruit almost always contains many or several seeds, or at least more than one seed.

Figure 371.

Leafy shoot and berry cut across of the larger cranberry, Vaccinium macrocarpon.

Figures 372 and 373.

Why don't you focus on getting your team out of the gutter? You're playing so bad, even my dog wants Michael Vick to start.

Oh! J-E-T-S! Burn, burn, burn! Hey, leaves! What's up? How does it feel that we'll drive three hours out of the city just to watch you die? If people change colors the way Leaves did, visiting grandparents would be a national pastime.

You have to see Grandma.

She's turning the most amazing crimson.

Hey, Leaves, you're red, you're orange, you're brown, and now you're in a bonfire because you burnt! George Clooney, you just got married.

Congrats, I guess? You were the greatest bachelor of all time, and you gave it up for weekend trips to Bed Bath & Beyond.

At least it was to someone relatively age-appropriate.

You get hybridized mutants.

You get leaves, L-E-A-V-E-S, that are not proportioned.

You get roots.

You get weeds, W-E-E-D-S. that are out of synchronization, out of resonation.

Yes, the litter.

There is a whole campaign, Leave the Leaves.

So you leave those.

We could talk about that relative to fire.

We could

because I like that Leave the Leaves because of it creates a habitat.

It

does.

Both are just, these two podcasts are really great information resources.

And one of the big things that they advocate for is the Leave the Leaves campaign, which I think is becoming more popular.

And I also, I hate the sounds of leaf blowers.

I'm also... radically acting and just once I break the leaves off the path so people can know where to walk.

But Trevor's plane was heavy and pointed and made for speed.

The Leaf is the opposite.

It isn't going anywhere, particularly.

It's simply wide and light, and every swing wastes a little height, and every wasted meter is another few seconds on the stopwatch.