Bags and Bags of Leaves

It is officially fall and that means lots of raking for humans! Which means lots of leaf piles!! Lots of fun for little bears but the humans don't leave them lying around for very long. In fact, they bag them up and then leave the bags lying around for a long time!

 Aren't they a pretty orange colour?? They are very comfy too... nice and soft and crunchy.

Sandy climbs to the top of the leaf bag pile and then jumps down...

Well, he had a soft landing place - but that wasn't half as much fun as jumping into the real leaf piles! Mind you... these orange bags are giving Sandy a bright idea... He hopes that they will still be lying around tomorrow because he has plans... heh-heh!!

Something's Afoot

Sandy went for a hike out on the prairie this weekend.

 He noticed something very strange as he walked along... leaves littering the path. What was this? Leaves should be on trees, not on the trail.

 Then he started noticing that the wild rose bush leaves were a beary strange colour. These ones were yellow...

 These ones were red...

 And instead of flowers, the rose bushes and funny red berries... which didn't taste very good... but are apparently a great source of Vitamin C.

 Even some of the grasses were a beary interesting shade of red instead of the normal green.

 Sandy tried to get a high vantage point to see what else he could see... but this rock wasn't beary tall...

 So he climbed a little tree and...

 Way off in the distance, Sandy saw something that was a bit disturbing.

 There were trees, big trees, with yellow leaves! Was it a disease? Was it drought?

They are certainly beary pretty and Sandy learned that a new season is starting called Fall or Autumn. He's just a young bear, so this is his first experience of this season!