Background Lighting

I was thinking about lighting the trees in my back yard this year, similar to this photo. This looks like an excellent yard haunt too, by the way. I love the silhouette of the reaper in the front.

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The Scare Factory

If I had unlimited funds for Halloween, I would definitely have a few of these. I've always been a fan of air powered props, and even have a few of them in my haunt... but these are just crazy!





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Walking Stick

I know this isn't really all that scary or Halloween related, but I found this bug on one of my pumpkin plants this morning. I'm not sure of the correct name for them but I always called them "Walking Sticks". I hope it stays away from the Praying Mantis that also hangs around our front porch, that little run-in could turn out bad. Anyway, this was only about the second or third one I have ever seen in my life, so I thought it was pretty cool. Now if I could just get some pumpkins to grow... I think it's probably too late for that now. Oh well, maybe next year.



If you look in the background you can see some of the tombstones that I put out the other day, made a pretty good background.

Jack-O-Lantern Art

Some of the things people can carve into pumpkins amazes me. I saw a bunch of pictures this morning and these were some of my favorites. I have no desire to make these myself, I don't really think I could, but I do enjoy seeing them. I guess I am more of a traditionalist when it comes to making my own Jack-O-Lanterns.






Image Source- Spooky Madison's Garage of Evil Page
I don't know where she got them from...

More Random Howl-O-Scream Pictures

Graveyards at Howl-O-Scream

One of my favorite parts of going to Howl-O-Scream is looking at the massive graveyards that are usually on display. This year wasn't as good, there was one pretty decent sized one, but it is usually a lot bigger (a few hundred tombstones). A lot of the stuff this year was geared towards younger kids, which explains why a lot of the tombstones are outlined with orange lights.

I think this is one of the reasons I like to have so many tombstones in my haunt. I should have close to 50 this year in all.

The Pirates of Howl-O-Scream

I'm not that big of a fan or pirates at Halloween, sometimes I feel like they are overdone, but these were some of the pictures I took of some pirates at Busch Gardens. I wish I had all those skeletons... they wouldn't be pirates anymore I can tell you that. Nothing against anyone who uses a pirate theme, I like looking at them, but I just don't want to do one. At least not right now anyway.