These trees go bare because in winter’s harshness, leaves can’t store enough energy to make up for the water a tree loses through them. And by letting go of their foliage on their own schedule ...

Instead of raking and bagging leaves this fall, consider allowing them to stay and naturally decay. Fallen leaves, plant ...

"I'm the last leaf on the tree/ The autumn took the rest/ But they ... piano and "sticks and branches, logs and dead leaves" ...