Little Visitor 16 Gallery - Halloween and the Winter Holidays

[ptarmic wumpus]

Anuenue and I are back, and the power is back on too. Yay! I've updated her blog, and here are a few photos as well:

Can you find Anuenue near the statue of the founder of Albuquerque?


Hiking in the foothills of the Sandia mountains


Pancake machine at the hotel breakfast this morning:


Driving past the giant peach in Gaffney, SC


Hopefully her trip to San Francisco in December will be less eventful....

[waterbaby]

Alby hasn't had much adventures the past few days because i've been buried in schoolwork and I managed to pick up the flu
He has been a real sweetheart though motivating me through the mountains of work:  . . .  And guarding my endless supply for tissues:  . . .
I've put more pictures of our elephant hunting on fb: http://www.facebook.com/AlbysTripToBelgium

Sorry you're not feeling well and hope you're better soon.  Glad Alby's been such a good helper with your school work and your illness!

And I was so excited to see him taking in the Elephant Parade -- they're all so wonderful!  From 2000 to 2002 we had something similar here, except the artist-decorated sculptures were angels (los angeles is Spanish for "the angels"), and I was able to see a great many of them in person.  Many were truly breathtaking, some were funny, others...indecipher able.  But almost all were fantastic, and even if it was a style or subject matter that didn't appeal to you, the work that went into them was usually impressive.  The angels were eventually auctioned off for charity, and if my bank account had been fuller at the time (and, more importantly, if I actually had a place to put one) there were several I'd have bid on!  (I did, however, get a book of photographs that I think has at least one picture of each angel.)  If anyone's interested, you can see some (but nowhere near all) of them here: http://www.publicartinla.com/Community_of_Angels/

[whenindoubtsew]

And I was so excited to see him taking in the Elephant Parade -- they're all so wonderful!  From 2000 to 2002 we had something similar here, except the artist-decorated sculptures were angels (los angeles is Spanish for "the angels"), and I was able to see a great many of them in person.  Many were truly breathtaking, some were funny, others...indecipher able.  But almost all were fantastic, and even if it was a style or subject matter that didn't appeal to you, the work that went into them was usually impressive.  The angels were eventually auctioned off for charity, and if my bank account had been fuller at the time (and, more importantly, if I actually had a place to put one) there were several I'd have bid on!  (I did, however, get a book of photographs that I think has at least one picture of each angel.)  If anyone's interested, you can see some (but nowhere near all) of them here: http://www.publicartinla.com/Community_of_Angels/

Both those parades and sculptures look and sound incredible!

Aurora spotted a kangaroo out the back of our place yesterday





And helped us get goodie bags ready for our expected Trick or Treaters 



I am thoroughly enjoying having Aurora as our LV. My hubby is enjoying showing her around too as well and helped her take the photo's of the kangaroo's!!

Hope everyone was safe from the huge Sandy storm.

[phoenixfiredesigns]

Yesterday, Ihaka helped me carve one of my foam (fake) pumpkins. I used to do these a lot and we started using the foam ones because this way we could save them from  year to year and build up a larger collection. When my friend Rand passed away, sadly, all of our Halloween pumpkins (about a dozen of them) got thrown away accidentally. This is the first one I've actually carved since then, so it was good to make one again.

Unlike the one I made for my Mom, this one, I used one of the fancy patterns to create.

[RaraAvis]

Happy Halloween everyone!

Here is Anana in the costume I made for him....

I thought he would make the prefect little Harry Potter

Here Anana is last night when we were carving our pumpkins...

[phoenixfiredesigns]

Mwahahahahahaha! I love the costume you made for Anana!

[MeganCrafts]

Pineapple Harry Potter?! Cutest thing ever.

Things are still really quiet here. It still hasn't stopped raining, but it's supposed to stop in time for the weekend, so we're going to go out.

[alwaysinmyroom]

hey ptarmic!  I just drove by the Gaffney peach butt on Sunday!  What a great picture with your little visitor!

I love seeing all the different places you guys go with your friends...the Harry Potter costume is so adorable...I love it!

[Alexampersandra]

OMG Anana is SO cute as Harry Potter!!! I love his costume so much!!!

I made a costume for Peanut Butter, too...



He has a brain slug from Futurama!

[Natasjadreams]

We don't really celebrate Halloween here but we did a couple of fun thing last night.
We harvested most of our pumpkins:

look at that, and that's not even half
Then we went and checked out the awesome full moon (but my camera isn't awesome enough to capture it)

We got ourselves some candy:

And this morning Alby dressed up and scared me:

We had fun