On a walk recently I came back with a pocket full of lovely coloured maple leaves that I intended to paint. They are currently curling up on the draining board in the utility room! We don't get a lot of leaves in our garden as it is bounded by evergreen shrubs, but the ones that cause me the most angst are those that fall in large numbers from a huge laurel on the other side of our boundary wall (note the use of the word 'boundary' here) all over our flower beds. They are a pain to clear up and never seem to stop falling from about August through to April. This laurel is so high now that DH hasn't a hope of tackling it, and it seems that, after much tooing and froing with the council, that they do not consider the wall to be our boundary so we are responsible for what grows behind it!! We are going, at great expense, to have it taken down. I will be glad to see the back of it (and the s*****g council!). Sorry - a rant!