Autumn comes to the neighborhood:

A book nook

Toy exchange

Painted parkway pony

Ramona, Henry and Ribsy in the autumn light

Foliage

Witches, ghosts, and jack-o-lanterns:

I finished knitting hats for the guild service project, socks, and a new witch gnome for the Halloween decor:

Service project hats

Ensnared socks

Witch gnome, for the October #YearOfGnomes

Back, showing her hair

Joining the local coven

We flew to Washington DC to visit our daughter and hike in the Shenandoah Mountains (next blog post). We returned just in time to greet our neighborhood trick-or-treaters from our porch for the first time in a few years, in the pouring rain this year. I even carved a (two-sided) pumpkin.

And I took note of the annual witch paddle in the Willamette River (photo credit to the Oregonian online). Someday I hope to see it in person.