Playing in the Leaves

On Thursday the girls started playing in the leaves when everyone got off of the bus. We have some beautiful trees on our street and most of the leaves have fallen now. That makes me sad. I love the fall season the best. This area is really beautiful at this time of year. The land has enough rolling hills that when your driving down the roads, you can look out and see hills of wonderful colors all around. For the past couple of weeks, when I'm driving around, I keep looking at the trees and wondering why the best season out of the year is so incredibly short. Fall here doesn't last long at all! The weather seems to go from 78 degrees to 58 degrees with nothing in between. This past week was especially warm. In the sun, it was 80 degrees most of the week. In the pictures above, Grace has on a sundress and is barefoot and playing in a pile of fall leaves!! What's wrong with that picture?

Anyway, back to the girls. They had a blast jumping, rolling, falling in leaves and throwing them at each other. When they tired of that they got out the rakes and went to work.

I tried to get some good pictures of them in all of the fall colors but I didn't really get what I was looking for. I really wanted a great candid picture of the two of them together surrounded by leaves. Lyla won't ever look at me when I'm trying to take her picture but it usually ends up proving to be some pretty neat shots anyway. I love candid photography. The last picture is just one of Lyla after we had gone inside and she was being silly.