The Halloween Thread for Scary Pictures!

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a few more in honor of All Hallows Eve

This first was recently taken in a local (southern Oregon) supermarket - where the Mexican Day of the Dead is celebrated as a sister festival to Halloween - along with its wonderfully colorful 'Calaveras' or skeleton masks and figures -

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Calavera
by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr

And speaking of Calaveras, here are a pair of tiny dolls/figurines I bought in Mexico City - called 'los Novios' aka 'the Newlyweds', they are a popular part of Mexican Day-of-the-Dead mythology, with the notion that dead skeletons can fall in love and get married too -

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Los Novios en la noche/Newlyweds at night
by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr

Another Mexican skull/Calavera was lurking in the tasting room at Boneyard Beer, a cool micro-brewery in Bend, Oregon -

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Boneyard Beer Calavera
by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr

The undead/Zombie mannequin in his bright orange Oregon State sweatshirt was standing proudly in front of a store in business district of downtown Klamath Falls, Oregon -

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Klamath Falls Zombie 3
by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr

And last but not least, back in Bend, Oregon, in the Boneyard Beer micro-brewery, the Halloween celebration/s seem to be a year-round phenomenon -

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Boneyard Halloween
by La Chachalaca Fotografía, on Flickr
 
This year's costume included my cargo bike:

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KBRX8006 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

The wife pedaled while I trotted along all night. (side note - I can pan!)
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KBRX8020 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

She had admirers
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KBRX8048 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

Don't ever let anyone tell you the 35 f1.4 lens can't nail focus decisively.
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KBRX8051 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

Our neighborhood is full of mansions, including this one with bronze statues in the driveway.
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KBRX8056 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

Sometimes it was just faster for her to run to the next house.
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KBRX8075 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

I don't know where we'll live next, but we'll NEVER have trick-or-treating this cool anywhere else.
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KBRX8148 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

We ended the evening at a party with friends from her school (a block away). Tons of fun parents, beer, wine, food, and all the kids playing together.
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KBRX8152 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
 
A bit after the event as I only saw this yesterday, but this tickled me and I admired the imagination ...


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