Here’s how the streets looked after the leaf collectors came. They don’t look like that now. Everything’s a mess already, thanks to the storm the other night. In one night we passed from one of the most colorful fall seasons I’ve ever seen in Oregon, to dreary winter. All the colored leaves got blown away and only super-dead brown ones are left.

And here's a storm drain, colored by just a few leaves, a sight we won't see again till spring.