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Brown and Green
There's an oak leaf on the tile in the kitchen on the floor.
Brown and dry, left-over from last year, perhaps it was discarded by the Vivian's Red Oak next door or by Brent's across the street.
I stepped on it just now, and one pokey lobe broke off. I picked them both up, leaf and lobe, and put them into the compost bin in the back.
Meanwhile in the front, the rains and the sun have pushed the oaks into high spring gear.
The Monterey Oak has grown six inches in the last two weeks. The Red Oaks (Vivian's, Brent's, and the others up and down the street) are exploding with spring-green pointy-lobed leaves. And even the Lacey Oak is starting to push out its tentative buds.
Goodbye brown leaf. Hello green.
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