tessellations unhinged like_a_tree the warm rain, wind made the trees drop their leaves faster the sidewalks were plastered with wet beautiful blankets of fall colored leaves in escher tessellations we walked a meandering path through the neighborhood and my eyes kept getting caught in the designs the rain was gluing to the sidewalk maple, oak and so many others i couldn't identify sadly though there aren't many leaves left close to the sky and even as we walked back to his apartment there was some little vehicle bustling up and down the sidestreets scooping up the piles of leaves people raked to the street 091030 ... () () 091101 ... unhinged my favorite ones were the ones with several different kinds and colors of leaves but then again the sidewalk squares framing the random design of just a bunch of perfect yellow oak leaves was equally beautiful the rain made the leaves look like vinyl darkened the sidewalk and brightened the leaves so that the contrast heightened the design the same with the trees darkened bark brightened leaves i have always loved fall the best and sometimes fall in milwaukee is a crap shoot but this year i have been stunned by the beauty countless times 091101 ... unhinged (maybe i've learned to find the beauty in the details, expand my joy whenever i can. it's kinda weird when you realize that there are things about yourself that are different than they used to be) 091101 ... unhinged (this fall not quite as beautiful as the others. the hot dry summer made for a dull and scorched fall) 141119 what's it to you? who go blather from