{Nancy's Texture Challenge}...

My photo using 2 of Nancy Donaldson's textures.

You can check out the rest of the photo entries here on Nancy's blog.

These are some of the same fall branches I used for

my fall Pumpkin Festival garland wreath.

I really did have a lot of fun playing with these leaves.

When I was a child we lived in Michigan, so unlike

here in Arizona, we had tons of leaves.  And my sisters and neighborhood friends

would rake up mountains of leaves and spend many afternoons jumping in them.

Leaves are given freely

for everyone to enjoy.

Today I still enjoy (and always do) kicking up the piles of leaves that gather at the curbs.

And I love, just love seeing them fall from the blowing tress as I drive under them.

So how do you enjoy them?

{Playing with the Falling Leaves}...

Enjoying autumn leaves by making a pumpkin festival garland.

A photo op with the leftover leaves scattered on my front steps

that I used for Nancy's Texture Challenge which you can see here on Tuesday night.

We don't get a lot of falling leaves here in Arizona so I had to go hunt some down and

brought them home where I thought they looked so quaint on my front porch.