OCT 18, 25.. AUTUMN LEAVES IN ANCHORAGE..

It's now Autumn 2025 up here in Anchorage. 

Autumn everywhere is so beautiful.

Soon (early November) Patti and I will "fly away to Arizona" to spend winter there.

Before we two "fly away" we wanted to show you our local landscape contractor's annual project of clearing up and removing our Autumn Leaves.

Taa Daa..

Here we go!

Leaves? Did we say Leaves? We most certainly have leaves after our local trees have finished "shedding their green summer leaves".

Step One for our local landscaping contractor, is to move the leaves into several collection areas.

Yes Oh Yes Indeed. It is a "very loud project"!

Now the leaves have been gathered into several smaller collections.

Now the process of gathering the leaves up and removing them from our Green Strip begins. 

This is "quite a process".

Now they move the leaves onto the flat, open, tarpaulin.

Now they are taking this load of leaves out to the front of our building.

At the front of our building, a special truck awaits the loads of leaves.

Whewie! As you can see, this is some job!

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Last year Gullible asked us:

I wonder what happens to the leaves after they leave your area?

It depends 100% upon who owns the truck. The Municipality of Anchorage (MofA) or a private contractor hired by the MofA.

The MofA work crews dispose of them in various city owned dump sites, from ordinary sanitary land fill areas to other city owned dumps.

The private contractors are free to dispose of the leaves as they wish provided they do not break MofA Ordinances governing dumps.

Due to MofA Ordinances, the leaves are not used for mulch because of the odor that would arise therefrom.

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The job is now finished for another year!

Cap and Patti and Ginny down in Laughlin, Nevada, who assisted us in downloading the photos!!

OCT 19, 24 .. AUTUMN LEAVES 2024..

Today's Post is courtesy of Tom and Ginny, our great friends and guest contributors who live in Southern Nevada. Along with me, we all grew up in Michigan.

Yes it is a short Post but a very sweet one.

By The Way (BTW), these photos were taken in Michigan! So here's to Michigan!

Wowie! Beautiful! Thank You Tom, and Thank You Ginny, so very much for being today's Guest Contributors.

Cap and Patti

OCT 4, 24 ( 2 / 2 ) .. AUTUMN IN ANCHORAGE 2024

Welcome back to part 2, of this 2 part Post, showing Autumn leaves at our Anchorage Condo.

If you have not yet had a chance to read part 1, and wish to do so, please click onto the below link.

https://bobbacaps.blogspot.com/2024/10/oct-2-24-autumn-in-anchorage-2024.html

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Today, Friday the 4th of October, our landscape maintenance team was busy removing the leaves we showed in part 1.

I had no idea they would be here today and was fortunate to hear them busy at work.

The leaf blowers are extremely loud! Clouds of leaves were "flying high". 

I have never seen this process.

The leaves in the leaf pile are raked onto a large tarpaulin.

The maintenance team seemed to enjoy me shooting photos!

Back to work guys!

The pile of leaves on the tarpaulin in the photo above are being dragged to the street to be picked up by a truck. You will see details of this further down below.

That pile of leaves is gone! It is history!

Now we move to the leaves immediately just off the back porch of our Condo.

Here the maintenance crew comes, heading our way!

Just look at those leaves flying! The noise was also substantial!

 

Volia! The leaves are gone from the Green Strip behind our Condo. Well they are gone at least until more leaves fall. But I doubt the maintenance crew will be back this year to clear more leaves.

Patti "dead heading" and caring for her beloved flowers.

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Now we will see how the leaves are transported out of our neighborhood.

Voila! 

What a process this turned out to be. This was the first time that I have seen this. I just "lucked out" and was able to see it up close and personal!

The next two photos were taken several days later when the leaf clean up crew revisited our area.

Let's move up closer and get a good look at the process of loading the leaves into the truck.

The very large black hose is a powerful suction hose that sucks the leaves that had been collected onto the tarp.

The leaves are fed into the suction hose. 

Do you see our white Chevrolet Suburban in the background of the below photo?

Where are the leaves taken once they are loaded into the truck?

It depends 100% upon who owns the truck. The Municipality of Anchorage (MofA) or a private contractor hired by the MofA.

The MofA work crews dispose of them in various city owned dump sites, from ordinary sanitary land fill areas to other city owned dumps.

The private contractors are free to dispose of the leaves as they wish provided they do not break MofA Ordinances governing dumps.

Due to MofA Ordinances, the leaves are not used for mulch because of the odor that would arise therefrom.

Whew! What a process.

We hope you found it interesting.

Cap and Patti