The past several weeks have been filled with cooler temps and shorter days. Sophia continues her piano lessons and gymnastics every week. Sebastian started basketball a few weeks ago and had his first tournament this past weekend. Mike took a work trip to Santa Clara, California. My photography has been neglected due to busy weekends and the lack of daylight when I finally leave work for the day. Here are the few photos that I’ve taken since late October.
Halloween…
Basketball Tournament…
It was the second weekend of deer hunting season in Minnesota. My brothers and nephews are deer hunters. They would have been very jealous to see what was resting in our next-door neighbors’ backyard this morning. I tried to sneak up behind the bushes and catch a shot (photo) of him as he rested. He was very alert and didn’t appreciate my interruption. He got up right away and kept a cautious look towards me.
My brothers hunted at my Mom’s house this weekend and went home empty-handed. I imagine this buck has been enjoying city living protected from all the hunters.
While Sebastian was away at a friend’s birthday party on Saturday, we took Sophia and one of her BFF’s to Glensheen’s Halloween Spooktacular. We went two years and were pleasantly surprised that they had changed things up a bit. We enjoyed touring the grounds after dark and viewing 1,000 carved pumpkins.
Here’s a description of the event:
Visitors will walk through the spooky Cottonwood cathedral, a torch-walk against the wrought iron fence to the West Gate where a mass of grinning pumpkins will greet you at the entrance of the mansion, lit for enchanted effect. Inside, witness a Pumpkin Seance contacting the spirits of old ghouls, Herman and Lily Munster and Morticia and Gomez Addams, artistically cut onto pumpkins. Then it’s down to the mansion’s winter garden to pick the winner of the pumpkin carving contest. Back outside, tour the Bridge of Sorrows where hundreds of pumpkins are fleeing in terror over the orangey/red waters.
Sophia and her friend found a number of favorite pumpkins – Frankenstein, mummy, owl and cat.
Glow sticks were for sale along the way.
The tour concluded with s’mores and a fire dancer.
We haven’t finished our own preparations for Halloween. We still have three pumpkins waiting to be carved. Here are the two that we carved at my Mom’s earlier this month.
Later this week we will have photos of Sophia dressed up as a fortune-teller and hopefully more carved pumpkins.
M. Sullivan Photography 