Trees and Their Leaves

If I may quote from Joyce Kilmer's poem "Trees" a line: (His poem "Trees" is an all-time favorite verse of mine!) "I think that I shall never see, a poem lovely as a tree!" (I suppose there are few who with that lyric would disagree.) A spreading sycamore with its dancing leaves of jade, Provides a nest for robins and an inviting summer shade. Ah! The beauty of crimson maple leaves carpeting the lawn; The shimmering dew gracing a ponderosa pine at dawn! Mighty oaks shed their emerald leaves that we held in adoration; In fall their bare limbs reach heavenward as if in supplication! There are so many species of trees - I could babble on ad infinitum! But, never mind, humankind could never survive without 'em! 'Tho I like trees and Joyce Kilmer's ode to trees, I have a little beef: I hardly enjoy raking and disposing of each and every doggone leaf!