Video Update

Green Grass and Dying Leaves

In the morning, sweepers come through the borough and remove all the fallen leaves from the sidewalk.  I'm not sure if this is done for aesthetic purposes, or so the commuters don't have to slip on the rain-soaked leaves.  Either way, it has made me forget that autumn is coming to an end and winter is creeping up.  As more and more leaves begin to fall, the daily sweeping is no longer enough to keep them tidied up, and so I end up shuffling through piles of foliage as I walk back from the underground station in the afternoon.

 Morning leaves all nice and orderly

Clean streets, dreary skies

London leaves are funny things. In North Carolina leaves (that aren't pine needles, that is) turn amazing shades of red and yellow before they finally break loose.  The leaves around my residence sometimes fall when they are still green.  Consequently, all the piles of leaves on the ground are shades of green and light brown.  It is a bit like they don't want to admit it is cold.  When I took the train out to Norwich for Thanksgiving at a classmate's house, the landscape was still rich and green, even in a temperature that would be considered "the dead of winter" back home.

Flowers blooming on a tree with dying leaves 

Green and brown leaves 

My residence hall, with fake grass on the far right