Faux Fall

Everything is still green, blooming and warm.  It's Florida Fall!!

I combat it by decorating with Fall items.  I bought some autumn colored fake leaves (yes, you read that correctly) to drape around my doors.  I put up a festive mum wreath on my front door with colors like orange and yellow and rust.  I put a pumpkin display out in front of my house.  I had to use fake pumpkins because if you use a live pumpkin, in less than a week you'll have pumpkin pie... or pumpkin soup.  The closest thing we get to autumn is a single tree in the neighboring yard.  The house has been in foreclosure for about four years and the lone tree goes through its firework display untouched.  Every year, staring around November... it begins to change color.  A veritable cornucopia of color happens as it does it's thing.  It's a wonder to watch... until the leaves begin to drop off.  The tree has leaves the size of shoe boxes and when they fall they all land in my back yard.  They actually drift against the fence where my dogs run and play and poop.  I have to go out a pick up these leaves because they hide the poop so once a week during our little faux Fall, I have to rake the leaves of the tree in the yard of an abandoned house.  Ah... suburbia.