Saturday, November 16, 2013

Witchy...

This beauty is my inside witch.  She looks over my shoulder as I answer the door.  I love that her head turns at random.  I love that she creeps out the UPS guy.  I only put her away yesterday.  

I wanted to do an exercise on photo composition.  The cauldron of poisoned apples seemed like a good thing to practice composition on.  That exercise made me hungry...










Friday, November 15, 2013

Video by the neighbor...

We have a neighbor that took a video/photos of our home during Halloween.  He came over knocked on the door, handed a DVD to the Mister, said he made this for us, and turned to leave.  The Mister stopped him and chatted and told him I would be thrilled.  I am THRILLED!  There was a man on Halloween that was everywhere taking photos of everything....everything.  I am so humbled that a stranger would do this for us.

The beginning of this video is of Harrison Blvd.  It is the historic street that is THE place to be on Halloween. The homeowners on Harrison Blvd generally get 1200+ TOTs.  We had 334 and I am in love with that!  At about :24 the video is of our house in the daylight and then Halloween night.  I can't tell you how much this means to me.  It's a pretty good video and I never seem to have the time to do this.  I generally don't see the kids and people outside because I'm busy with the TOTs.  It warms my heart to think someone...someone out there appreciates what we do for one night of total Halloween fun.

I made a Pumpkin Banana Bread for my neighbor as a "Thank You".  The Mister pointed out the house and away I went.  I was effusive in my thanks and he was gracious in his praise and excitement over our haunt on Halloween.  Nice to meet a neighbor I haven't met before.

I hurry home and relate to the Mister about meeting our very kind neighbor.  Here's the kicker.  Our neighbor is NOT the man I saw taking so many photos and videos.  I'm thinking I need to bake another Pumpkin Banana Bread or maybe....lock the doors.





Thanks to my neighbor.............

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Halloween Night...


Halloween Night ~ perfect chill in the air  ~ perfect hint of cotton candy drifting in the breeze ~ screams ~ laughs
It's what we wait all year for.










I'll post a few more photos over the next few days.

2013 is over and it was.........so worth it.....

Halloween 2013 is over and it was worth all the work, all the effort, all the rush, rush, rush.  This week I would love to post some photos.  We always have company stay with us for the Halloween week.  It's such a blast.  I wouldn't have it any other way and that means that the photos come later....after the fun!  This is a chalkboard we added this year.