Each day puts something familiar in a whole new light.
Larry and I head south for our afternoon walks. Just north of
Balboa Park and Morley Field are some lovely craftsman style homes. It’s delightful to walk through these neighborhoods to see their personal gardens and latest renovations. This time of year, we walk around looking for festive Halloween decorations. There are a few homes with giant spider webs, tombstones, and pumpkins on display.
By heading south, we have to cross University Avenue. We always cross at a small mechanic’s shop with used cars on the lot. There is a lot of turn-over in inventory, but this blazin’ hot rod has been on the lot for many weeks and perhaps it’s not for sale. I’ve admired it in the past, but today it really stood out as the best Halloween decoration in the whole neighborhood.
Halloween fell on a Monday this year and with that, I think we got fewer trick-or-treaters. That means more candy for the office the next day. Thankfully our neighbor has such an arrangement so we didn’t have to eat Twizzlers for the next few months. Several of us in the complex pool our stashes and sit out on the front stoop to hand out candy. A lighted jack-o-lantern welcomes families from around the neighborhood.
The costumes were very impressive this year. Here’s Diedre and Destiny from our complex, as devil and vampire. And our first visitor dressed in the purr-fect costume! The night cooled down nicely for that little lion costume. I laughed the hardest with the little two-year-old police officer on his first Halloween. His parents were pushing him around in his stroller. He was wheeled up to our front steps and then hopped off, taking his pumpkin pail off the handle bar. Even with the assistance, it looked like a long shift.
