The Great Flaming Pumpkin!

Wow. We've enjoyed hanging out with our new neighbor friends Joe and Sarah quite a bit, but it wasn't until last night that I was completely blown away by their style. Joe is our token science whiz friend now. You can't go for a hike without him teaching you the origins of the various flora and fauna, you most certainly cannot leave him home on trivia night (we win everytime, thanks Joe) and up until now, you really just can't carve a standard Jack O' Lantern without a bit of Joe input.

Tom and I have been entertaining several guests this week. Jason stopped by to watch Total Recall (an Arnold classic) the other night and then we got to play host to my old friend, Mira and her boyfriend Shane. They were roadtripping from Colorado to Virginia then all the way up the coast and now they're here in Vermont. They're on a mission to find a cool, new place to live and so far Burlington is ranking pretty high for them. I wonder if our neighbor Joe and his awesome science experiments had anything to do with it?

Thanks Joe...for being our Bill Nye. And thanks for creating an excuse for me to finally use this picture I shot of Bill Nye "The Science Guy". I had a photo shoot with him last spring and simply couldn't find any relevant use for this photo. Now...it looks perfect.










Awesome. this looks like something out of the scary horror movie box covers that I used to peek at whenever my mom would take me to the video store. i treated the horror section like it was the "adult" section since it was a world so unknown to me.



Perfect! Joe had just the right amount of force on this one.



We had such a perfectly spooky evening. Very quiet outside, chilly, and then these thin clouds drifted in over the almost-full moon. I don't have any Halloween decorations besides these pumpkins...I wish I could just decorate the lawn in creepy Halloween-themed pictures. :)



This is exactly what we were going for.



Ooooooo, this will get the trick-or-treaters a run for their candy. Awesome.