Looking out the kitchen window as the sun set, I had to run out with The Good Camera to snap a few shots of the amber-tinted pumpkins. See the full set HERE.

Also, I’ve created a separate Category for The Pumpkin Graveyard, since people seem to dig the idea. See last year’s, this year’s and any future shots HERE.

Neighborhood hooligans senselessly attacked one of the pumpkin corpses:

His brethren are taking it surprisingly well:

…while Ripley sings “Thirty days til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween! Silver Shamrock!”

If I had my way, my wallet would be full of these. Of course, the chocolate might make it messy…

Freddy Krueger by Ripley Savage

Having met Robert Englund and seen the original Nightmare On Elm Street series, Ripley’s a Freddy Fan.