Do You Celebrate Halloween?

A brown-haired woman wearing a silver brimmed black wizard hat with silver crescent moons and stars looks at the camera, red brick wall in the background.

Halloween is a popular day in southeast Michigan, and a special day not only for children and Halloween parties.

Several adult friends told me about attending local Halloween events this year, including haunted forests, zombie paintball, haunted corn maze, and haunted houses.

Me, I’m into

  • Halloween stories
  • Checking out scary trees
  • Spooky music like Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain (the opening is amazing!)
  • Dressing up to give out treats on Halloween night.
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Photo of the Week: Happy Halloween!

A brick house with giant gray spider on the roof. Front lawn covered with grave markers, skeletons, Halloween figures, and creepy hands that look like they're growing on the green grass lawn.

One of the nearby neighbors goes all out for Halloween decorations.

And has for over 10 years.

Each year it seems their Halloween display has grown even larger with more graveyard markers and skeletons.

The Bride of Frankenstein showed up about five years ago. That gray gigantic spider on the roof appeared three years ago.

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Photo of the Week: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go

old, gnarly dead tree in costume with big eyes, white goatee, and straw hat.

When I wrote about the scary tree in Ypsilanti in 2017, I thought it was a Halloween decoration.

Someone is having fun dressing the old tree next to the cemetery for Halloween with big, green googly eyes and a black mouth with gnashing teeth.

Except this year when I passed by the cemetery, I noticed the tree looked different each week. Continue reading Photo of the Week: All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go