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Dreary on the Mall

From a cold, wet walk along the National Mall last November, here’s another chapter in my ongoing effort to ignore the aperture ring.

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Benches

On our way back from the Lunar New Year Festival in Chinatown we walked through this quiet little park next the House of Ruth.

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Papery leaf

This is what our big, yellow maple leaves look like a while after they fall. They get all papery and eventually fall apart, unlike the oak leaves, which never seem to decompose.

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Pile of oak leaves

Part of last fall’s leaf cleanup effort, which I never quite complete. Many of them are still out there, safe for a while under a blanket of snow.

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Float pile

A colorful collection of fishing floats in my parents’ yard.