By Margaret Renkl, contributing Opinion of the New York Times – Photo credit Philip Myrtorp at Unsplash
Every year, around this time of the year, when New England is blessed with the magical colors of Autumn, we are reminded that we need to close the windows to avoid the noise of the gas-powered invaders: the leaf blowers.
Margaret Renkl, a contributor to the Opinion pages of the New York Times clearly describes:
They come in a deafening, surging swarm, blasting from lawn to lawn and filling the air with the stench of gasoline and death. I would call them mechanical locusts, descending upon every patch of gold in the neighborhood the way the grasshoppers of old would arrive, in numbers so great they darkened the sky, to lay bare a cornfield in minutes. But that comparison is unfair to locusts.
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