Tag: Halloween
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Octobering
Octobering is crisp, cooling, and colorful with serendipitous summer souvenirs, sun soaked and warm, scattered to accentuate bittersweet contrasts. Life starts all over again when it gets crisp inthe fall. — F. Scolt Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby) After the mesmerizing months — sultry summer’s soporific thrum, bountiful blossoms, decadent harvest — Octobering is a reminder…
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Jack-o’-lantern Post Mortem
Revisiting the contest for best Rosslyn Jack-o’-lantern, two totally different approaches in this post mortem.
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Happy Halloween 2022
I’ve dubbed this creative-but-maudlin jack-o’-lantern (designed by Hroth Ottosen) “hatchet head”. Spooky, right?
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Halloween-ing 2022
Halloween-ing with help from our Amish friends. (Yes, these pumpkins have warts!) Less than a week until the spookiest day of the year. Are your jack-o-lanterns carved?
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Autumn Equinox
Autumn equinox is upon us again. Better than daylight savings time, right? Equal day and equal night. A perfect easterly sunrise and a perfect westerly sunset. So many thresholds. August-to-September. Labor Day. First frost. First hard frost. Autumn equinox. Halloween. Daylight savings time. Thanksgiving… Autumn is a season of thresholds. And among the many metaphorical…