2006, Page 2

Here's the grandkids in their costumes.  They stopped by after trick-or-treating in their own neighborhood.  Trick-or-treating was just about over for this year by this time and they're in the process of attacking the trick-or-treat candy that hadn't been given out.

Here's Sydney sitting next to the bigger of the two pumpkins.  I got a couple tubes of long thin glow-sticks on eBay in September and Sydney has a hoop made from two of them in her lap and a smaller one on her head. They were beginning to fade by this time and with the light of the flash, they don't look like they are glowing at all.

Here's a close-up of the ghoul taken after dark, clawing his way out of the grave.

This is the pukin' pumpkin, taken after dark.  Also visible is a small segment of the orange rope lights I used to outline both sides of the sidewalk.

Here's the larger pumpkin, taken just as it was getting dark when it was lighted.  You can also see the tail end of the garland that ran around the door.

Shot of the ghost after dark.  I had set up a small spotlight to illuminate it.  The light shining on it seemed to make the plastic strips under the white gauze almost glow.

This is the zombie figure I got last year.  This year I put him in the tree near the witches and put a small spotlight on him so he would stand out.  Hil didn't really like this one as she said it gave her "the creeps" when she looked at it.

This is the beginning of the "haunted sidewalk" from the driveway toward the front door (I think I'll expand on that theme next year).  The lighted arch is new this year and it solved the problem of safely getting power to the other side of the sidewalk.  I fed an extension cord over the top of the arch to the grassy area on the left of the sidewalk.  You can also see one of the witches and the caldron in that grassy area.  Also visible is the small spotlight that I used to illuminate the witches and zombie (one of the witches is behind the one with the caldron in this pic and can't be seen.  The zombie is also hidden by the leaves above the witch's head.  The ghostly apparition from years past also reappeared this year and can be seen hanging in the tree behind the arch.  The ghostly apparition is the same one I've used for a couple years with motion, lights, and sound activated by a motion detector.

This is the rest of the "haunted sidewalk" as it approaches the front door.  The graveyard is just to the right and the ghost in the tree is to the left, along with the fog machine.

Here's the fog machine doing its thing.   I had it set up with a timer that activated a blast of fog about once a minute.

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