Day 304

October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween

This morning a cardinal pair greeted me in the driveway.  On the spruce was a Northern Flicker, Red Headed woodpecker and a very large Blue Jay vieing for something on a branch.  Then the woodpecker came down onto the garage.  None of my photos came out, they were all taken through the windshield in bright sun.  But I got to witness it and feel good about it.

 

I've been taking pictures outside the Coop on Halloween since 2009, I believe.  But after looking back on the last 3 blog years, I realized we've missed a lot of town Halloweens.  Last year I drove with Di to bring EJ to Bard so they could do Halloween with friends.  And I slept through 2010's festivities.  

Well, today I did it, and I had fun.  All those kids are all grown up, but new ones are out there.  And many of the parents dressed up today.  We had fun.

Coop staff put on a time and Hilary photographed it, so I photographed her.  We're going to combine our pictures.  

Annie dressed as a graduating senior.

Sebastian is 9, holy cow.  

A family portrait, 3 generations of Henrys; I think the year we started The Literacy Project, Halloween of 1984, a bunch of us including Jim Henry and me dressed up and went to Biffs to play pool.  Oh that was a long time ago and at least 2 generations ago.

I had fun doing this tonight, I hope I don't get sick, although I did have a mask on most of the time.   Welcome to the end of this cycle, I am once again grateful for November, the most poignant month of the year, the pink month.