The brilliance of autumn

Raining this morning so I dashed down to where the last tree in the street is shedding it's leaves. It's a flowering cherry with a green flower. The leaves are some of the prettiest I have seen.
Now, how to make them look natural inside. I dropped them from a height. Blew on them to make a pile. In the end I cropped hard any result.
It did clear later but what with research room and committee meeting and taking photos of a great nephew to show an elderly aunt, no time for anything else.