Halloween 2007

(More Notes: First, yes, I'm going to keep appending to this post. I like having my 31st post be on Halloween. Now: Helicopters are still flying over Franklin street (about 2 miles north of my house). Halloween on Franklin Street has just gotten utterly crazy: Virtually no one is actually from Chapel Hill, lots of people don't dress up, they just go to people watch, there's NO creativity anymore, and there are Park-n-Ride buses to shuttle you there. NO fun anymore.)

(Ed.Note -- after I published this the first time I realized it was my 31st post in October. How serendipitous!)

I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!!! Don't get me wrong, Christmas is very special, as is Easter, and Thanksgiving is great. Birthdays, Mother's Day, Earth Day, all good. Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Labor Day, Presidents Day, MLK Day, all very important.

But I LOVE Halloween. The decorating, the dressing up, the candy, all of it.

So, without further ado, some images from Halloween 2007:

The Before Picture (gotta love bones and tombstones in the den)


Count Elvis-cula and The Mad Scientist:


The Haunted Battlefield


Pottery Barn says skeletons are VERY big this year


The Graveyard, with fog from my new fog machine!


Count Elvis-cula with the haunted car (and y'all thought Velvet Elvises were scary)


The Mad Scientist with the haunted car


Who ARE those two?


Hmm, looks like someone lost his head. And his hand.....


The Haunted Battlefield by Night


DON'T try to break into my grave. I'll cut your stinkin' hand off, I will....


And now, of course, it's my favorite part of Halloween: Unwinding on the stoop with a glass of red wine while I pick out my favorites from the Candy Cauldron. Heath Bars and red wine ROCK.

Hope everyone had a happy and haunted Halloween!