What Autumn brings

Whan Autumn arrives, most people think of the leaves changing colors, or grass that turns green again. Pumpkins and holidays are on everyone's minds. Everyone except me. While I do enjoy the change in the leaves and the colors of the grass, I keep thinking, "What is this thing in my yard?"

It seems that the wind has increased, thereby laying down the old, dry grass. And with the recent rains, it's washed away a lot of dirt and dust. And the combination of these two events leave me with findings such as this, embedded in my yard.

Really, where did this hammer come from? I've spent the last year mowing and weedwhacking this area down to he nubbins and yet, this had not surfaced until now. I've also found half buried hoses, buried rocks, and long forgotten pieces of rebar/miscellaneous trash. It never ceases to amazes me at the amounts of garbage people drop and leave just because they have enough land to do so.