I know a lot of people adore Halloween, and mostly I do too.
There are some things I find difficult, being a natural HUGE scaredy cat.
I'm usually always poor so have to miss out on fancy dress stuff but I do have one tradition that I really enjoy.
Every year I go to the local organic farm and pick a selection of pumpkins and squashes to carve, eat and decorate.
Being really into vegan baking I then like to use all the flesh for things like pies, cheesecakes, biscuits, and seedy snacks.
It's the final settling point that I accept winter is coming and I am now in autumn.
I like to spend a lot of time outside watching the leaves change colour and the forms of naked trees reveal themselves.
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pascipio:
Great set. You are lovely!
robertbluesman:
Yes! Love creating foods and crafts with all kinds of Autumn pumpkins squashes and gourds. Have a friend who makes kitschy tree ornaments and ceiling mobiles from small yellow and zucchini squash. She nips off the cut end just wide enough to carefully clear out the guts and seeds with long foreceps leaving the empty skin, then stuffs them with shreds of newspaper to keep shape, sun dries them, and hand paints them as quirky fish or birds or people. Of course she eats the innards, never had a zucchini pie made like a traditional pumpkin pie until I met her, now I make them all year round! I save the seeds and toss them to waiting squirrels and blue jays in my gardens for a quick dose of winter gratitude. I'll tag you in a photo of one she made for me. Cheers 😎