Halloween 2012 - Poor Pumpkin

Halloween 2012 - Popcorn Ball

I had a popcorn ball this past Halloween. First one since I was a kid. Loved it.

Halloween 2012 - Squirrels

Halloween 2000 - Sophie and Frankenstein

As a small puppy Sophie was sometimes afraid of the dark. There is a particular two block stretch near the cemetery on which she didn't like travel when dark although this got somewhat better as she got older. There was also a plastic light-up Frankenstein monster that would appear in a yard near our house around Halloween that she didn't like either.   It was usually in the early morning light when she'd  hesitate as we came within a few houses of it. She was all to eager to get by. I haven't seen this particular household display this Frankenstein in a number of years but just a few nights ago  I spotted it again while walking Athena. It brought back memories and really made me miss Sophie. I snapped this photo of the creature:

Halloween 2012 - Elvira

There's an empty store over on Chicago Avenue that , until a few months ago, housed a vacuum cleaner repair store. In this day and age of buying new when something breaks, I'm surprised a store like this lasted as long as it did. Anyway, it has been empty for a few months but a couple weeks ago these cut-outs of Elvira Mistress of the Dark appeared. At first I thought one of those seasonal Halloween stores might appear but that never happened. As Athena and I walked by this morning I decided to snap a photo.