My neighborhood gets all decked out for Halloween, even more so than Christmas. Let’s take a walk around the block and see what people have come up with this year.
The Low Maintenance
A few pumpkins…a few skulls…aaannnd we’re done.
The Ghoulish Jeeves
The black wreaths are a nice touch.
The Even-Skeletons-Need-A-Vacation
Maybe Jeeves can get them a margarita.
Aloha!
The DIY
The I-Didn’t-Think-This-Through
How will they get inside?
The Two-Cool-Pumpkins-and-I-Got-Tired
The Creepy
The eyes blink, sometimes independently of each other.
Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean 13?
The Lost in Translation
The fresh mums don’t scream spooky.
Does your neighborhood decorate for Halloween? What are some of the craziest decorations you’ve seen?
Happy Halloween, everyone!
Can I join Jeeves and have a marg? And have you seen the people try to leave the I didn’t think this through one? Happy Halloween! Houses here don’t decorate, but many of the pubs do and that’s where I spend most of my time. I probably shouldn’t admit that.
How fun that the pubs decorate for Halloween. Do you find that a lot of adults get dressed in costumes?
That pirate seriously creeps me out. As for decorating…a little here but not so much (it’s less concentrated). I hope to at least put out a pumpkin but that’s as far as I’ve ever gone.
In the other window, next to the pirate, is a mummy zombie wrapped in towels. Definitely a macabre vibe!
I’m with TBM!!! The skeletons need a drink in their hands! I have seen some pretty outlandish displays but not in my neighborhood. We are much more “high brow” with pumpkins and cornstalks and mums and not Halloweeny. 🙂 Tonight is Trick or Treat so we will see what comes to the door!
Do you get a lot of trick or treaters in your neighborhood? Here, people tend to hang out on their stoops with bowls of candy, so the kids don’t have to go up the stairs to ring the doorbells. It like a block party! 🙂
You know it varies. I alway over buy and then the last half hour just give handfuls!!! I would hate to run out.
Good to know. I’ll be at your house toward the end of the evening. 🙂
Love it! Especially the skeletons in their lawn chairs and the faux dangling pumpkins 😉
Don’t those skeletons look like they belong on a beach somewhere?
Do children get dressed in costume in your area?
Yeah, it’s been catching on in Spain…
My personal favorite is the The I-Didn’t-Think-This-Through. Classic imbecile design.
My neighborhood decorates, but in comparison to yours, rather anemically.
I think there is a certain “keeping up with the Joneses” situation here. But it does make for a festive atmosphere.
I really wonder how they get inside. Maybe they use the basement entrance?
Or as the Beatles would sing, [they] came in through the bathroom window…”
I can’t tell you how much I love this post! (You can see why on my blog.) Your neighborhood is fairly tasteful compared to my town, where the style seems to be Whole Halloween Store on the Porch. It’s all good.
I love your town’s philosophy. If you have it, put it on the porch. 🙂
In my neighborhood, strings of lights in the shape of skulls are a new favorite this year.
Oh my, those building are beautiful! The decorations are cool too.
I used to live in a neighborhood that had a decorating contest each Halloween, but our new digs are a lot more laid back, thankfully. We have a big pumpkin that lights up, but it’s not real. If we carve too soon out here, the pumpkins go bad real fast. (77º here yesterday.)
The brownstones are really lovely (even when they’re not ghoulishly decorated). Most of them date from the 1860s to 1880s. I think you’d love to photograph all the little details.
I was never good at carving pumpkins. They would always cave in on themselves and get singed black from the candle. Your artificial pumpkin sounds like the way to go for me.
Very nice stroll. I’m definitely in the non decorating section of my neighborhood. However, last night the little ghosts and goblins liked my peaceful, simplistic home as the house across from us was rather gruesome with bloodied childlike dummies swinging from trees and motion sensored screams.
Sounds like you gave away a lot of candy on Halloween night. I hope there was some left in the bowl for some late night snacks. 🙂
What a great post! Thanks for taking me on your walk. You got me giggling at two cool pumpkins then I got tired.
Thanks for coming along for the stroll. 🙂
I wonder what happened with that last pumpkin. Someone must have thrown in the towel.
Ha ha! Those are brilliant 🙂 Love the ‘I didn’t think this through’ one 🙂 I saw a few kids dressed up here but nothing major. And way more sirens than usual!
Hmm… sirens on Halloween. That could get annoying. What would Hermann think? 🙂
He’d be chasing them, colostomy bag streaming behind him 😉
I’m loving the skeletons on vacation house…very cool. Which one was yours?
My Halloween decorations lean toward the minimalist theory of design. So minimal that there are none. 🙂
Hope you got lots of chocolate to tide you over until Christmas!
Love the captions! Made me smile this morning! 🙂
Glad that this post got you off to a Happy Monday. 🙂
I love this walk in your Halloween-themed neighborhood. Your characterizations were so accurate.
Thanks for walking along with me. 🙂
What a great neighborhood! We live in the middle of nowhere and the only decoration done at my places is the thousands of webs added on the front of the house by the bazillion spiders that live around me. Naturally creepy.
That sounds waaay spookier, Peg. Are there tall corn stalks also? Creepy things always seem to happen near the corn stalks.