Aside from removing dead leaves fallen from nearby trees and weeds that take root, rock is a very low-maintenance alternative to grass.

Every day he glanced at it, giving it no more thought than he would a blade of grass or a leaf fallen on the path.

The water was like glass, though leaves fallen from overhanging trees-brown, red, orange- floated slowly by, riding the lazy current.

Allan gives the example of a leaf fallen into a stream.

The moss would be a saprophyte, feeding on decaying leaves fallen from the bushes.

He kicked at the leaves fallen across the pathway before him, scattering them in a shower of color.

Then they stopped, gathering beneath a monstrous oak, its leaves fallen and matted into the earth about it in a carpet of muddied yellow.

He lifted a heavy wooden box of rifles to bis shoulder and, as he turned, he slipped on a leaf fallen from a crate of cabbage.

Two hundred times and more have the red leaves fallen in Mirkwood in my home since then,(3) and little change does it seem to us.

"Five hundred times have the red leaves fallen in Mirkwood in my home since then," said Legolas, "and but a little while does that seem to us."