What is October to us?
October is...
falling leaves and changing colors
the change of the seasons
the end of the harvest
hunting season
football season and the local high school homecoming game
the World Series
an abundance of candy
orange plastic pumpkins and the enormous effort it takes to shove candy through the tiny hole in the top
little kids dressed up as ghosts
Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
Peter Boyle and Young Frankenstein
Ichabod Crane and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin
Apple pie
Apple sauce
Apple cider
the orange of pumpkins
the search for the perfect pumpkin
and the perfect pumpkin patch
Pixie Stix and Bit'o'Honeys
Concrete Blonde
Rocktober
Dracula, Bram Stoker and Anne Rice
Family and friends and time shared together
Warren Zevon and the Werewolves of London
Van Morrison's Moondance
George Romero and his zombies
The Mummy
Elvira
the unmistakeable voice of Vincent Price
wool socks
superstition and Superstition
black cats
spiders
plastic spider rings
the school carnival
trick-or-treating
my grandmother in a pirate costume and my mother as a witch
the Frankenstein coat rack
strangely enough, donuts
corn mazes
that East wind out of the Gorge
Sarah Winchester
Haunted houses - real, imagined or created
the spooky graveyard and the wandering spirits once housed there
Disney's Haunted Mansion
Chex Mix
Martha Stewart
Caramel apples
bats
witches and our misunderstanding of Wicca
Galena, Ill., and Ashland, Ore.
pumpkin-flavored anything
and so much more...
Happy Halloween, all.
And Happy October.
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