Fall fun

(Jill Bock, Staff)

Six-year-old Hayden Samons, right, and Andrew James Smotherman, 7, found more than just leaves in their pile they raked in a front yard in New Madrid. Erica Hardin, 7, just couldn't resist tunneling into the pile then being buried by more leaves "but no sticks" provided by her friends, who fully intended on taking their own turn in the leaf pile.