Happy Halloween!

I hope everyone has had a great Halloween! I spent my time at my friend Mary's house, giving out treats and enjoying the
sight of our days-long decorating efforts, including a lovely path of luminarias to the front door, and a scarecrow in a lawn chair, with eyeball glasses, a tie-dye shirt, and a baseball cap. Also, we had an endless loop of scary sounds on a CD (wolves howling, ghostly screams, vampires saying scary stuff, etc), and all manner of Halloween decorations. Some guy around the corner had an AMAZING UFO display--a full-sized flying saucer he'd made, complete with rotating colored lights, dry ice, and happy aliens! Mr. Strega came over Mary's house to fill his pockets with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.

Adorable children were
in abundance, including a precious little one dressed in a fish costume (her mommy was dressed as a mermaid), and an adorable witch, about three years old, wearing a gorgeous costume of black velvet with pink ribbons, carrying a pumpkin treat bag in the same color as her dress ribbons. She came back twice and checked out all the decor. Some of the kids came to the door eating apples a neighbor had given out--something I always love about this small town, where there are still lots of trick-or-treaters, and nobody seems afraid of poisoners and weirdos who sit in their dark, dank houses, inserting needles into apples. This always a holiday of warm light and the sound of kids laughing and having fun in our neighborhood.


Later, after the last little ghost had gone home and the leaves blew down the street in tatters, Mr. Strega and I went to a local park to look for the new comet that has recently appeared in the constellation Perseus--and we found it! So, it was a fun time overall, probably one of the best Halloweens I have had in a long time.

Tomorrow I celebrate the Day of the Dead, but it is a more private celebration for me.

Goodnight.