Day 13.279: From the peak, the only way is down

I heard on the radio this morning that coastal Maine's foliage is considered at or close to "peak" right now. That's certainly believable looking out of our back windows:

They also said that many of these "peaking" leaves will come down over the next couple of days as a storm front comes through bringing heavy rain and strong winds.

And while color-changing leaves brings out the leaf-peepers (in normal years at least), what downed leaves bring out are the rakes. We've already started, but there is a lot more raking to come.