“I honestly don’t, I just know they fall on the ground and disappear.”(Madison Monteiro)
November is the season to prepare for December. It is the season where all the leaves are off the trees onto lawns, streets and sidewalks. November is where rakes come out and all you can here every afternoon is the sound of a leaf blower. Cars rush by on the roads which catch underneath the leaves and cause them to fly up all around. Then they fall, again.
When December comes and the snow coats everything, do you ever notice that there are no leaves under the fresh snow? although if some very few. So where do the leaves go?
Fragmentation is when things break into pieces and fall apart. Leaves decompose with the help of earthworms and the leaves releasing carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere. They break down creating a natural mulch. The leaves become the soil for the snow to fall upon.
So If you didn’t know where the leaves go, now you do!