I’m still lamenting the lack of color in the changing-of-the-leaves in my Syracuse city neighborhood of Eastwood.
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Too much green still, and way too much brown in what has decided to give up the summer.
But that doesn’t mean Ellie B aka Dogamous Pyle and I had to settle for boring on our latest walk around a couple of blocks.
Many of my neighbors are ready to celebrate Halloween. So out front of their houses we spied the bright orange of pumpkins as well as any other color they chose to spruce up their decorations for Oct. 31.
Maybe they’re fishing for more trick-or-treaters with the early invitation via ghosts and monsters.
Some folks even mixed and matched with a harvest theme, too.
In any case, there’s color to be found around the Little Bitty. It’s just not up in the trees.
Do you decorate your property, and if so, with what and for which holiday? How is your autumn shaping up for color? Which is your favorite photo, and why?
Yes we plan on decorating for Halloween. We put up a Christmas tree. My boyfriend is Jewish but we still put up a tree for my son. I don’t know if he’ll put lights up. It looks nice in your neighborhood! I live in the desert so I rarely see trees change colors like this. It’s finally cooling down here. Today it’s about 85.
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I think it’s cool that you put up a Christmas tree for your son. And thanks, Amaya, yes we like the seasonal change up here in Syracuse. Hot down there in El Paso still!
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We have to finish up our decorations, it just seems like we are always so busy now-a-days. I thought I was retired.
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I’m glad to hear you’re doing it up for Halloween for the grands, Dora. 🙂
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I haven’t been home long enough to decorate. 🙂 But the world around me is starting to show some pops of color amongst the dirty green the trees turned to.
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I’m glad you’re home and seeing the color of life, MBC. 🙂
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I love Halloween and all the decorations!
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Do they do it up big time in Stockholm, Anna?
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Well, we do like to do things as you do over there- and its getting bigger here in Sweden- BUT its not yet as big holiday as in the us!
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I hope it’s enough for you to dress up and get some candy, Anna. 😉
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*lol*
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I rent, so no property-decorating-rights for me. But I live in a relatively suburban part of the Bronx where people love their holiday decorations. Plus, the nights are now cool enough for walking around to see all the out-doing people are up to. As for the colors, I found some in Connecticut this weekend….
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A walk around your Bronx neighborhoodto see the decorations sounds fun, Fasci. And good choice on the successful color found in Connecticut, too.
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The blaze of glory will come, even if later than usual. I don’t know about the trees where you are, but here, they seemed to take forever to green up this year, so perhaps they will be reluctant to drop their finery just yet.
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Late to arrive to the party, last to leave. I like that concept, Ali. 🙂
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Ha! Story of my life, Mark! Maybe its an Irish thing… being late for things definitely is!
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Better late than never, as we say, Ali. I’ll wait for you anytime. 🙂
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Sweet photos, Mark. There are decorating contests here…folks go crazy, it’s lit up like Christmas. ☺ I like fall flowers and pumpkins, maybe a hay stack !
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A hay stack is nice this season, Van. And contests bring out the creativity, right? 🙂
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Great photos Mark. I especially like the one with the pumpkins and goblins. I live in an apartment so I don’t get to decorate. I love big pumpkins. 😀
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I hope you see some nice pumpkins on your travels around the neighborhood, Paul. 🙂
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You have a quaint neighbourhood Mark – I really like it. ❤
Diana xo
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Thanks, Diana. It’s a good little neighborhood, still, I think. Quaint works for me. ❤
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Looks like fun!
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Yes, indeed, Vonita. Do you celebrate Halloween in Australia? Did you in South Africa?
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Not in South Africa, Mark, it was never a big thing. And tbh it would never be safe going from door to door not that one could with all the security gates and electric fences etc. Australia, on the other hand, do tend to be a bit over-the-top. My kids have always managed to gather a fair loot!
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I’m glad the kids get to enjoy the day in Australia, Vonita. That’s the main purpose, as far as I’m concerned.
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I enjoyed these pics. I always like the more autumn-theme Halloween decorations than the removable intestines in zombies decorations. I nearly gave in to a $10 Kohl’s harvest wreath yesterday, but I stood my ground.
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Good for you, Kerbey. No blood and guts in my book, either.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this post, I am definitely one who doesn’t have a yard but my apartment building is all decorated and my personal apt is also decorated. The beautiful mums are just so colorful and the little haunted Halloween things you found to take photos of are great, Mark! Hope it is soon gorgeous in colorful array. I have resorted to one tree at a time taking photos. . . 🙂
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One tree at a time works, Robin. I bet your apartment looks great all decorated for Halloween for the grands, my friend.
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We have a neighbor that has made his entire front yard into a meeting place for ghouls and goblins. It is quite impressive and very scary to drive past at night.
The only Fall colors I see are the Sycamore trees – their leaves are changing rapidly, not sure if it is because they have given up the ghost (do you like my Halloween pun?) because of the drought or they are actually changing color early for Fall. It’s hard to say.
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Yes, SD, I truly appreciate your Halloween pun. I hope it’s fall and not the drought. 😦
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Me too!!!!
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Mark … I love the pop of color in your ‘goblins and pumpkins’ photo. But I’ll just have to content myself with all things pumpkin – pie, lattes and custards – as there is no fall down here. 😉
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Enjoy your eats and drinks in the Florida (non-)fall, Judy!
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Those leaves need to get a move on. We decorate in a very British way – a bit half hearted looking compared to the way you guys do things. The major shops here are decorated for Christmas already. Too soon I think.
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Yes, too soon for Christmas everywhere in the world, Rachel.
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This time of year we put our punkins on the porch and the weather does the rest! 😉
I enjoy the decorations other people put out, but we’re not the people who do them.
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It’s fun to look, I agree, Joey. 🙂 A punkin on the porch is plenty. 🙂
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We decorate a bit inside Mark its too hot here to put the pumpkins out! It is not my favorite holiday! Gatorette
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Enjoy the pumpkins inside with your troupe, Gatorette! 🙂
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These are pretty cool. I like the first house your featured…something about the way the decorations blend in with the shrubbery. I feel like L.A. ‘does’Halloween more than NY. There are so many people in the film industry that just do their houses as if they were sets for a horror film…or maybe that was in NY too but just not near where I was. Living in an apartment, we usually don’t decorate but this year my husband went all out and bought these wonderfully tacky decorations from the 99 cent store. We may keep them up all year!!
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Keep them up all year, Marissa. 🙂 Hey, when I moved to Syracuse, I thought folks up here were WAY more into Halloween than they were downstate when I was growing up.
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Maybe just certain areas. When I was in Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn, people were in to it but not so over the top as they are here. In Manhattan, Halloween can be fun for adults but way less kids make it less of a production.
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Interesting back in the big city, Marissa. 🙂
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don’t worry, the color show is coming a bit late this year. i love your decorations. i decorate for halloween and christmas, but kind of low key –
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I like my neighbors doing the decorating so I can enjoy it, Beth. Me, not so much. My dear wife Karen put out a real pretty mum on our side entrance. 🙂
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Both of the newest neighbors on my street have decorations out. As for me… I only have the authentic, real spider webs that continue to pile up around my front door no matter how often I go out to brush them off (Which isn’t often since I use the kitchen/garage door to get in and out). Well, that and my black cat Biskit who likes to peek out the window…
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Real spider webs and a black cat, good enough in my book, Bill.
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Great colors falling in this post, Mark.
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Thanks, Ann. People are doing it up for Halloween around here. I like that.
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I loke these 🙂 the third imagenis my favorite bc its warm and its ‘home’. We dont have a colorful fall where I live but I love decorating for each season…and Christmas is still my favorite 🙂
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I’ve always found it interesting, Florida all decked out for Christmas but without the snow, West. I hope to see some photos of it from you. 🙂 Thanks for your kind words about my fall images here.
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I might freeze to death if we had a winter full of snow!! It does cool down (you would most likely be hysterical over what I consider cold) and makes for a nice season … but Im not going to lie bathing suits soon replace winter coats by the end of January 🙂
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Yes, you likely would freeze to death up here, West. Shiver all winter, anyway … 😮
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