Happy Halloween! Check out these bright and cheerful pumpkins!

Happy Halloween everyone! I hope you are all having a fun day. I'm going to share some photos from the local jack-o-lantern display. Our village does something similar to Bayview's Pumpkin Pavilion but on a smaller scale. This year I carved a happy little jack-o-lantern and mixed things up by carving triangles for eyes instead of circles. 😉 That lightbulb gives the appearance of it peeking to the side.

My Mom's pumpkin:

Her pumpkin has something creeping up on it...

You have your choice of pumpkins. So you go in the gazebo and pick one to get started. It's free to carve, if you leave your pumpkin on display.

I ended up choosing a small one because scooping those guts out (especially with the small plastic kid tools) takes a while! 

Here are a few of my favorites from the display. Check out those eyelashes!

I'm not sure how that cat pumpkin has such a bright reddish glow. I didn't see any others with that. Do you think someone scraped so much out of it that it had a thin skin?

This one is so cute, like a little emoji. 

A sun or sunflower:

They have you carve a circle in the back so they can string the lights through. Here's a backside view:

A sinister drooler:

I wonder if someone used part of the circle they cut out in the back to make this tongue. The teeth look taped on now that I look at this. Maybe someone brought some orange paper to add?

A spiderweb:

I bet this is Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas.

I think that seed made an accidental eye.

Little bows:

An inside view:

This is the giant inflatable pumpkin they bring out each year. I know from social media that they had a Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man inflatable that was massive. I think there was a wind issue or something happened to him because I haven't seen him full of air yet.

We had a lot of happy jack-o-lanterns at this event. I saw very few menacing ones.

This will give you an idea of how they look lined up on the bleachers.

After the summer-like days we've had this past week, I'm afraid that the pumpkins are looking a lot different from what you see here. It has been 80° for a few days after all! Yesterday, mine had become a jolly gaping mouth full of leaves and Mom's was looking like a grump. A squirrel was having the time of its life with these pumpkins and I think knocked a few off the bleachers. Something did, anyway. I got a real fright, because those pumpkins were near me at the time. I wonder what these look like today?

Have a good, spooky rest of the day! The weather has taken a turn for the dark and windy here, so it is feeling like Halloween now. 🎃