Or All Hallows. Or Samhain or Beltane, depending on which hemisphere you’re in and which holiday you celebrate, if at all.
I don’t go for all the ghoulish stuff myself. But F. and I carved one mean jack-o-lantern. I’d been meaning to do that with him since we first started dating, and every year something kept getting in the way. But this year, we went to a “pumpkin patch” at the local elementary school, manned by the cheerful grandparents of one of the students, and picked out not only our pumpkin for the main event, but also a greyish blue, scalloped pumpkin that F. swears is the European standard for eating (we shall see) and which I honestly wouldn’t mind growing, it’s so pretty.
F. managed to balance it on his head for about 10 seconds, which should tell you the kind of relaxed, playful mood the mellow gold autumn sunshine was inspiring in the pumpkin patch. Wish I could grow some in the Victory Garden next year. I’ll have to see if we could expand our own “patch” a little, to give the vines room to run.
This was F.’s first experience of the jack-o-lantern carving ritual. I think he secretly wonders now if we’re all nuts. But he didn’t object to the roasted pumpkin seeds in the least!
The photo is of some lovely quilled mums my mom and dad gave me, with a background of American standard orange pumpkin, taken just before we lobotomized Jack.
Everybody have fun and stay safe out there tonight!
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That is just a lovely picture … colours, closeup, background … marvelous.
Thanks for sharing
You’re welcome, philip! Thank you for the compliment
So F. is from across the pond? I hadn’t picked up on that before. I always look forward to your header shot coming up. The flowers are lovely and I’ll bet you did a great job on your carving on jack.
Yep, from way across the big blue. It’s not always so obvious unless you’re face-to-face, hearing his cute accent
Thank you so much for the compliment, Lynn. That really means a lot to me.
I bet F becomes a master carver! The photo is lovely – perfect colors that remind me of candy corn.
Have a Happy Halloween and a fabulous weekend!
LOL, Talon! You may be right. We did a two-faced pumpkin, which he christened ‘Janus’, so that he could try his hand at the whole thing and yet I’d still get to do a bit. His face was so much more intricate and scary than my face. My face looked more angry than anything — but as F. said, angry is often scary.
I didn’t even think of the candy corn connection, but you’re right. You have such a good eye!