Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween. Show all posts

Wednesday, 26 October 2022

Pumpkin, Halloween, Traditions


I didn't do a YouTube video on this pumpkin picture.  I had started it a few weeks ago and kept redoing it.  The photo isn't great as I took it in artificial evening light at the dining room table.  As it is a seasonal subject I'm putting it here on the blog.  

I don't really celebrate Halloween (in the commercial sense) but I do make a pumpkin pie each year - it has become a family tradition.  I no longer make it with fresh pumpkin but use a reliable tin of pumpkin puree.

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Happy Halloween

I am not really into the commercial aspect of Halloween.  Tonight I will be closing the curtains and hiding from the children!  The problem is we are more likely to encounter  teenage troublemakers with threatening behaviour rather than sweet little souls in fancy dress knocking for trick or treat.  I am a little sorry though that I haven't managed to make a pumpkin pie this year as I traditionally do every October 31st.  Never mind.  I will make one in the week.

Out for a walk to clear my head and throw off some of the cobwebs (pun intended)  I couldn't fail to be impressed with the amount of effort a neighbour had put into decorating their front garden for Halloween.  They had put so much detail into making their garden into a graveyard.  I have shared a little of the garden above.  A lot of it was too scary to show on here but they really went to town with pumpkins and candles and monsters and skeletons sticking out of coffins and bins!!!  It did raise my spirits (pun intended again!)  and made me happy that on this occasion I had taken my camera with me.

Happy Halloween!