I know it's spring because my lawn is covered with leaves. Crocuses and tulips, too, but leaves mostly. This is a mystery to me. I raked the leaves last fall, snow covered the ground in 8 foot piles all winter, and now- when the snow melts- there are zillions of gooey, wet, matted leaves in the yard. How did this happen? Do leaves someone generate out of snow, in some sort of crazy parthenogensis?

And, to stay with this theme, how is it that I can rake the aforementioned leaves for 2 hours, and then look into the yard to see the same number of leaves that were there when I started? Somehow, I've raked, wheelbarrowed, and piled leaves for two hours, filling trash cans and bags, and yet these leaves have someone re-generated in their exact previous spots. Really? This is possible?