Halloween continues in Cedarburg

I have lots of photos to share from our annual trip to Cedarburg! You might remember my Cedarburg posts from years past. Every year, my mom and I visit this village as part of her birthday celebration. We went slightly earlier than usual this year and I'm so glad we did. Unlike last year, the trees were in full autumn glow and the shops still had their Halloween decorations out!

I'm adding some relaxing Celtic music for you to listen to while perusing my photos. It's an autumn themed mix of music with crows in the background. I think it's the perfect complement to these pictures.

I always have to get a picture of the old mill and current winery set behind the river. I love the reflection in the water!

Colorful autumn leaves were crawling all over the buildings. I like the way these look like they're in the midst of changing color.

I remember taking a photo of this part of the building before and thinking that the leaf formation looked like a giant reaching hand. This time I think it looks like a red spider crawling along the wall.

This building housed a different business the last time we were here. Now it's an art museum. I'm in love with this house. Look at all those Victorian details!

This is another house I love. That metalwork on the roof is a favorite architectural feature of mine and I also really like that gingerbread detail over the porch.

The shops still had a lot of Halloween merchandise for sale and quite a few outdoor displays remained.

Here's a closer view of that hanging light fixture. Part of a string of orange twinkle lights were inside of it. It was a pretty cool decoration that I would have liked to have seen at night.

I loved this skeleton who kept watch over the top of the gazebo.

Behind this shop was another great view of the river. I couldn't help fitting a little metalwork into the frame.

We found a sizable pile of bones outside another shop. It was like running across a giant dog's stash!

 
This creepy critter was hanging above this bar last year too. When the wind picks up, his material floats around in an eerie sort of way. This is something else I would have liked to have seen at night.

Now we're on to the pumpkins! There were so many pumpkins and pumpkin creatures out this year. Isn't she cute?

This amazing creature was sitting outside a law office. Maybe he's studying law, because it looks like he has a lot of reading ahead of him! I think this was made from something like paper mache, but a material more tough than that since it was out in the elements.

There was a Halloween event in Cedarburg this year that involved a lot of pumpkins. I didn't attend that, but I'm sure it was cool to see. From what I heard, kids paraded through town with their lighted jack-o-lanterns. These well carved and decorated pumpkins were sitting outside the shops, restaurants, and bars.

Jack Skellington:

This was one of my favorites - Homer Simpson complete with a donut!

A dapper skeleton gentleman:

The Bat Logo!

I always like when pumpkins are turned on their sides so the stem becomes a nose.

Kind of a skeleton mouth:

A little vampire pumpkin! They carved away a rectangular mouth and then stuck some of those plastic vampire teeth inside of it. How cool is this?

Attack of the eyeballs! Even the stem has an eye.

I'd like to see this pumpkin lit up at night. It looks like someone did that technique where you scrape away a thin layer of the pumpkin's skin so the design glows.

A crazy, bloody, three-eyed monster pumpkin! I think that the blood is actually dark red candle wax that was melted onto the pumpkin.

A clown pumpkin wearing what I think is a Disney Goofy nose.

How creative is this? It's a swan made from gourds!

These pumpkins looked naturally beautiful against this cobalt blue wall and floor.

Doesn't this bumpy gourd look like a little man? In the way that a snowman looks like a man. It sort of has that form of a head, shoulders, and arms.

Does anyone know what this is?

It looks like a dried up plant or fungus, but I've never seen anything like it.

Check out this old car that was sitting in front of a vintage/antique shop! My guess is that it's from the 1920s.

The back is covered in wood:

We bought our one souvenir of the day in this shop. It's a stone plant holder that looks like the top of a column.

It was only $4.75! When we brought it to the cash register, the shop owner said "Wow, you can't find stuff for prices this low!" I think he was as surprised as we were at the deal. Someone else must have put the price tag on this.

We had such a fun day in Cedarburg! I hope you enjoyed the photos. If you'd like to take a look at our past trips to Cedarburg, here are the links to them:

Halloween Remnants in Victorian Cedarburg - 2012

The last flicker of fall - 2011

Pumpkin Creatures - 2010