Halloween 2008
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This picture was also taken just at dusk. It's
a little out of focus but it shows Barry Dull's grave, the Witch
gathering, and the ghost lights. |
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Here's the little Vampire, sitting in the tree above the cluster of Witches.
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Here is obligatory pukin' pumpkin for this year.
I put it out along the sidewalk this year rather than on the steps. |
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For the third pumpkin this year, I made a weeping
face. I put it where, in earlier years, the pukin' pumpkin normally
sat. |
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When I was digging the Halloween decorations out this year, I couldn't find the arch that I always set up near the beginning of the sidewalk. This arch is essential as I use it to drape a power cord over to get power to the other side of the walkway where the witches are set up. Since I couldn't find it, I bought another one.
Over the years, the manufacturer has simplified it and it's just plain
black-painted metal tubing with orange lights but none of the
black-painted brush attached. Since it was so plain looking, I
attached a garland of fall leaves to it to add a bit of interest. Of
course, as soon as I bought it and set it up, I found the original one so
I moved this arch up near the front door. |
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This picture shows both the old arch in the
foreground and the new one farther down the sidewalk. In the left
center foreground, you can see the little Zombie next to the tree trunk. |
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I took this shot from the driveway right at the
front sidewalk. You can see the clump of trees where I put the
gathering of Witches and the little ghost lights. these lights were
something of an afterthought. I saw them on sale at the local Lowes
the week before Halloween and decided to add a couple strings of them to
this area. In the background you can see the rope lights along the
sidewalk and the side of the pukin' pumpkin at center right. |
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This year I dug out some old
pumpkin lights that I hadn't used since a couple years before we moved to
this house in 2005. I found them in the bottom of one of the
Halloween bins and, just for the heck of it, tried them. Since they
still worked, I decided to put them out along the raised flowed bed
instead of rope lights this year.. |
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I took this shot looking just to the right of our
yard on Halloween afternoon. Nothing special about it except
to show the fall foliage adjacent to our yard. |