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HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:
AUTUMN MONTAGE
Word Experiment Number Three


Football and falling leaves, red, gold, and brown
Patchwork quilts, blankets of soft eiderdown,
Back-to-school hobgoblins, apples in tow
Crooked-faced porch pumpkins all in a row,
Bedknobs and broomsticks, and Halloween spells
Horses and hayrides, and pumpkin-spice smells,
Scarecrows and cornstalks, and fresh sheaves of wheat
Bedsheet ghosts, witches who cry "Trick or treat!"
Harvest moon dances, an applebobbed kiss,
Masquerade glances that whisper of bliss,
Mischief night madness, soap, t.p., and eggs
Woolly bears, crickets and daddy longlegs,
Barleycorn, Johnny cakes, wide upturned eyes
Chasing the wild geese south cross the skies,
Cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, and clove
Eye of newt, fenny snake, cast iron stove
Hearthfires, candlesticks, flames burning bright,
Black cats and things that go "Bump!" in the night,
Jacks Frost and Skellington, ghost lights and ghouls
Harvest Homes, Harvest Queens, courtiers and fools,
Samhain, All Hallows Eve, Day of the Dead
Ghostly night horseman in search of his head,
Veteran's Day marches, the season's first snow
Thanksgiving turkeys, the fireside glow,
Eggnog and pumpkin pie, warm Winter wine
Wreaths made of Indian corn, holly and pine,
Gloves and galoshes, the North Wind doth blow
Carrying Autumn off -- where, I don't know.

The poem gave us a bump in the night too! Great picture.

Thanks, NancyGene.

We would like to see the grotesque faces you carve on your pumpkins for Halloween. Nightmares for all!

I don't usually carve faces on them.

I'm more of a Linus van Pelt-type regarding jack-o-lanterns: "You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"

Although, occasionally I do allow my blood-thirsty side to take over...

I'm responsible for three of the jack-o-lanterns below:

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HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:
AUTUMN MONTAGE
Word Experiment Number Three


Football and falling leaves, red, gold, and brown
Patchwork quilts, blankets of soft eiderdown,
Back-to-school hobgoblins, apples in tow
Crooked-faced porch pumpkins all in a row,
Bedknobs and broomsticks, and Halloween spells
Horses and hayrides, and pumpkin-spice smells,
Scarecrows and cornstalks, and fresh sheaves of wheat
Bedsheet ghosts, witches who cry "Trick or treat!"
Harvest moon dances, an applebobbed kiss,
Masquerade glances that whisper of bliss,
Mischief night madness, soap, t.p., and eggs
Woolly bears, crickets and daddy longlegs,
Barleycorn, Johnny cakes, wide upturned eyes
Chasing the wild geese south cross the skies,
Cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, and clove
Eye of newt, fenny snake, cast iron stove
Hearthfires, candlesticks, flames burning bright,
Black cats and things that go "Bump!" in the night,
Jacks Frost and Skellington, ghost lights and ghouls
Harvest Homes, Harvest Queens, courtiers and fools,
Samhain, All Hallows Eve, Day of the Dead
Ghostly night horseman in search of his head,
Veteran's Day marches, the season's first snow
Thanksgiving turkeys, the fireside glow,
Eggnog and pumpkin pie, warm Winter wine
Wreaths made of Indian corn, holly and pine,
Gloves and galoshes, the North Wind doth blow
Carrying Autumn off -- where, I don't know.

The poem gave us a bump in the night too! Great picture.

Thanks, NancyGene.

We would like to see the grotesque faces you carve on your pumpkins for Halloween. Nightmares for all!

I don't usually carve faces on them.

I'm more of a Linus van Pelt-type regarding jack-o-lanterns: "You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"

Although, occasionally I do allow my blood-thirsty side to take over...

I'm responsible for three of the jack-o-lanterns below:

Suitably gruesome! That looks like a noble old house in the picture.


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NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:

NancyGene wrote:

HarryLime wrote:
AUTUMN MONTAGE
Word Experiment Number Three


Football and falling leaves, red, gold, and brown
Patchwork quilts, blankets of soft eiderdown,
Back-to-school hobgoblins, apples in tow
Crooked-faced porch pumpkins all in a row,
Bedknobs and broomsticks, and Halloween spells
Horses and hayrides, and pumpkin-spice smells,
Scarecrows and cornstalks, and fresh sheaves of wheat
Bedsheet ghosts, witches who cry "Trick or treat!"
Harvest moon dances, an applebobbed kiss,
Masquerade glances that whisper of bliss,
Mischief night madness, soap, t.p., and eggs
Woolly bears, crickets and daddy longlegs,
Barleycorn, Johnny cakes, wide upturned eyes
Chasing the wild geese south cross the skies,
Cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, and clove
Eye of newt, fenny snake, cast iron stove
Hearthfires, candlesticks, flames burning bright,
Black cats and things that go "Bump!" in the night,
Jacks Frost and Skellington, ghost lights and ghouls
Harvest Homes, Harvest Queens, courtiers and fools,
Samhain, All Hallows Eve, Day of the Dead
Ghostly night horseman in search of his head,
Veteran's Day marches, the season's first snow
Thanksgiving turkeys, the fireside glow,
Eggnog and pumpkin pie, warm Winter wine
Wreaths made of Indian corn, holly and pine,
Gloves and galoshes, the North Wind doth blow
Carrying Autumn off -- where, I don't know.

The poem gave us a bump in the night too! Great picture.

Thanks, NancyGene.

We would like to see the grotesque faces you carve on your pumpkins for Halloween. Nightmares for all!

I don't usually carve faces on them.

I'm more of a Linus van Pelt-type regarding jack-o-lanterns: "You didn't tell me you were going to kill it!"

Although, occasionally I do allow my blood-thirsty side to take over...

I'm responsible for three of the jack-o-lanterns below:

Suitably gruesome! That looks like a noble old house in the picture.

Yes, the house is around 100 years old, and "noble" is a wonderful description for it. It belongs to a close friend who I spent Halloween with that year. My own house, a rustic cottage, was best described by a realtor's listing as being "cute as a button."

I like to keep a few pumpkins on my kitchen counter over the course of the Winter. Pumpkins lend a feeling of warmth to a room. They usually last till the beginning of April, at which time I save their seeds for planting.


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