autumn...past & present

this week's Thematic Photographic theme is

Fall colors ~ 216

on Oct 1st, ALL my Halloween creatures find their way out of the closet...

and place themselves here and there...around our home.

on the mantel...of autumn present

it's still too hot for comfort during the day.

i'm TRYING to be patient

for some COOL weather here in north Florida.

NO changing of the leaves...not yet.

so i searched through my pictures of autumns past...for Fall colors.

in and around our home...signs of Fall

this next picture was taken along the Foothills Pkwy in North Carolina in '05.

every week, Carmi @ written inc comes up with a new theme.

no specific day to post your photo...you have all week to get around to it.

join in...read about it here.

thanks for wandering...

stay cool.  be safe.

laura

half way there...

ENTER...i dare ya...

october  IS  halloween.

one of those fun holidays. no stress.

just enjoy the dark...spooky...creepy.
horror & nightmarish things.

skeletons. witches. ghosts & ghoulies.

the dead. the UNdead.

...besides halloween, october also usually brings cooler weather!
trees turning from green to red, yellow and orange...

leaves floating to the ground. crunching under foot.
pumpkin pie. cranberry. egg-nog (spiked!).
hot apple cider.

a fire in the fireplace...carving pumpkins...

and toasting the seeds.

OoOoOoOo

(a few of our past pumpkin-heads!)

hey! i never claimed to be a professional pumpkin carver!
THIS year i might try using a dremel tool...i hear you can get some
intricate designs that way.

Deep into the darkness peering, 

long I stood there, wondering, fearing, 

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. 

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

a few years ago...i carved...

and sam had the great idea to put in marbles as eyeballs!

after a while...pumpkin-head starting getting...a little moldy...

well...maybe ALOT moldy!

so...onto the burn barrel with him...

BURN, PUMPKIN, BURN!

maybe this weekend we'll take a ride to a local pumpkin patch...

at night of course...

after we take a stroll through the foggy graveyard...

((if you're into halloween art...check out this guy's site...

the Dark Art of Chad Savage . 

i found it last week while searching 

for halloween pictures for my FB album))

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: 

religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin. 

-Linus Van Pelt in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

hauntingly yours,

laura