A Halloween Treat

Yesterday was Halloween, and if you didn't buy a little candy and turn on your porch lights, you missed a real treat.  Deborah and I have done Halloween each year we have been in Fort Valley, but for one. We took last year off but were ready for the zombies, vampires, fairy queens and other young visitors to come calling.

Our first was cute little bumble bee. She came accompanied by her older sister around 5:45. Waited about twenty-five minutes for our next callers. The evening started off slow enough that we were a bit worried if anyone would come this year.

But it did get busy. We had almost one hundred kids to come along.  What a joy. Happy, smiling faces even under the zombie makeup. Some alone, some in the company of older siblings or parents. All really polite and enjoying themselves.

Only one other house on our block gave out candy, there were other participating in the neighborhood, but most houses were dark.  This was a great opportunity to get to visit others in the community, to share a few minutes of hospitality with strangers.  To make a child smile.

And that is what it's all about.

This May Sound Corny..........

 

"Stately mansion and hut forlorn,
All are hidden by walls of corn.

All wide the world is narrowed down
to the walls of corn, now sere and brown.
 What do they hold - these walls of corn
whose banners toss on the breeze of morn...."

From "Walls of Corn" by   Ellen P. Allerton

 

I love corn, every year I end up in someone's cornfield with a camera. Could spend all day seeing things to shoot.  There are so many textures, the shucks and stalks twist and bend in so many ways.

Always wait to shoot when they are dried and golden. Like an old man's

lined and weathered face, full of character, a touch of sadness. Their season almost over.