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The Bard: Gentlemen, Start Your Rakes

In this AP file photo, Edie Enns, admires they beauty of the colors of the maple leaves at her friend's home in Manette, Wash. Edie, said she is going to use the leaves to make a red bed on her garden. She wore the appropriate attire to rake up leaves by wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey.
In this AP file photo, Edie Enns, admires they beauty of the colors of the maple leaves at her friend's home in Manette, Wash. Edie, said she is going to use the leaves to make a red bed on her garden. She wore the appropriate attire to rake up leaves by wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey.

The leaves on the maples
are red as the dawn;
today they're on branches,
tomorrow, your lawn.

The Bard of Sherman Avenue

D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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