Autumn leaves may be pretty, but after a few hours of raking or listening to your neighbor’s leaf blower, you’ll probably agree there’s nothing funny about the phenomenon.

Click here and think again.

Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and in the Bio-Diversity – Abstract City Blog of The New York Times.

It’s the rare story in the NYT which is all picture and no text. And sure to make you chuckle — even if it doesn’t change the way you feel about raking leaves.

Source: New York Times Abstract City Blog, 11/17/2009