We had our friends/tenants over for Halloween brunch, since I had to work the evening shift. Hot coffee, scrambled eggs with chorizo, and fresh ripe avocados were the tasty start to the festivities. Above, Jinx ghosts around and inspects the punkins, as usual refusing to sit still while I take her picture.
Then we got down to the business of punkin carving! We kept our punkins carefully hidden from each other until the unveiling. All the lights were turned off, the shades pulled down, and candles were set inside each punkin. And then...
After the harvesting, salting, and toasting of myriad punkin seeds (a treat I look forward to each year almost more than the jack-o-lanterns themselves), we settled down for a showing of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas".
A good time was had by all!
5 comments:
Wow! You worked hard on those. They all look so lovely lit up. People don't really do pumpkin carving over here - all the pumpkins are really small. But they eat more pumpkin. Strange.
Word verfication: Foryl - to hunt for the last of the season's mushrooms.
I would have thought it was "to hunt for the last green leaf of the season" (For= forage and yl=chlorophyll)
8-)
Love them! I haven't carved a pumpkin since my kids left home. Had a pang thinking of toasted seeds. Yum.
Wow, thats great carving! A friend of mine carved some cool ones too, left them outside and when she saw them next someone had smashed every last one of them!! Such a horrid thing to do!
Those are incredibly expressive pumpkins. Halloween (or Samhain) is definitely not just for kids!
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