pooch, spooky

Logo on a sweatshirt for the annual event in Lakewood O, masquerading on a Saturday midday in October beats an evening at the end of the month.  True, this is mostly for dogs and adults; but it is fun, and some people can be very creative.

Basset JarJar dressed as a dragon.  He is looking up at a treat.

Farmer with Lilith 

Ash, a German Shepherd, is drumming up business.

Carrying your pup, frees you to look about.

 hmm,

A Dalmatian family, and i forgot the pup's name.

Dog Ross (Chauncey) shakes off his wig, while he poses with his family.

I guess, if you are a mighty enough witch, someone else can be your broom attendant. 

Doggy costumers meet in Lakewood O.

Fred & Wilma have their pup, Dino, ready to be fotoed.

Hot dog, and taco costumes are popular to outfit the pups.  Generally, whole pumpkins are not investigated too long.

Bane begins a tiny puppuccino. Bane and his family dressed as bats.

Rusty in a Dune scene. They were a popular pair.

Poppy in the tank, Loki in green army clothes not pictured.

Resting in the shade.

suiting up

I thought Nacho was dressed as an ancient golfer, but no, he is a character from the film, Up.

Hallowe'en is dress up time, and scene creation, an opportunity to be fun and creative. When you involve your hounds it is pleasant. Some lawns have fun and timely seasonal displays. While witches, spooks, skeletons, cats, and pumpkins are traditional, some choose to go to ugly horror. This event does not have that worry.

Hallowe'en 23

 

chair of applied electricity, Parma O

Not all Hallowe'en decorations have to be spooky. Clever fellow comes up with a new lawn story each year in Parma. The season allows for creativity, moreso than other holidays.

 

Waiting in Bay Village

These readily available plastic skeletons have utility as mannequins. They allow for diversity of posing, and as clothes horses they are convenient. Skeletons are the most apropos prop for the season. Most appropriate are dancing skeletons.

"I'm a Barbie girl in a Barbie world"  (Cleveland west side)

This house on Clifton does new elaborate scenes for Hallowe'en every year. This year they present Lake Eerie School for Witches. The couple also have done Christmas, and Thanksgiving scenes. Middle autumn to the middle of winter, one does not to be so wary of lawn mowing.

Another yearly event is Lakewood's Spooky Pooch parade. This year the weather was drizzly, dark, and 50°F. Pretty sure turnout was depressed. Often family groups costume together.  Their spooky pooch is Shark.

2022 Miscellany #15

Metropark in Cuyahoga Heights recently opened a bike track.

hawk inspecting Parma lawns

tree color

top of inter-dimensional time portal in the Latvian Garden

a view of University Circle Methodist Church (Holy Oilcan)

lamp around Wade Pond at Cleveland Art Museum

really chill surfer dog at Spooky Pooch Lakewood

neat sign on Detroit in Gordon Square

chandelier in Old St. Mary Romanian Orthodox, now Cleveland Public Theatre

Spooky

Beginning on Tuesday night, and then through the darkness it was it was rainy and windy. Driving by this house, a woman was about to get in her car. She saw me with a camera through the car window, and insisted to pick everything up. This horse skeleton had fallen in the bushes.

Aunt Patti was on the floor, the waiter's head was off, and the glass had fallen. She was in a rush, and did pack a lot of stuff in a smallish front yard.

Fester's head (far left) needed to be lifted up, and the casket to be opened.

At Lakewood Spooky Pooch, saw Cruella de Vil with a man, she was not with Dr. Oz. Surprised.

Scooby is Brigsby, Shaggy and Velma are Dan and Marley i read.

"Just like a ghost, you've been a-hauntin' my dreams
So I'll propose... on Halloween
Love is kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like you
Spooky"

Great dragon guarding her treasure in Bay Village.

[foto jz; much better than mine, which was too dark]

Hallowe'en 2022 continued, w/ dogs

Some witches of Parma, notice to the right of the red witch. vvvarrroooom

Only Christmas has more concentrated lawn decorations than Hallowe'en. The weather is generally better in October than December.  Hallowe'en imagination has a greater variety, and directions to go. Some are worth seeing, and i have photographed them before. A couple of days before at two different locations in Old Brooklyn, i was stopped by a passing driver, and congratulated for my display. I told them, they are not mine, i only stopped to snap pictures. Of the different directions to go, one is child friendly, and another is for small children. What i have no liking for are the serial killers from the movies. Hallowe'en is not meant for gory horror, especially not of psychopaths.

for the holiday, orange and black flamingos in Parma

fair warning in Seven Hills

People were killed in 1692-3 in the city, and now they generate money for it.

Lakewood had their annual Spooky Pooch Parade. Masquerade for dogs and their people. Friendly crowd, good event for children, although it is adults who predominate, and for some reason--heavy police presence.

Women in Black 

The only good foto of people during the parade to-day. Better pictures are taken beforehand, until the mass of people are too dense. Eleven times i was about to snap a foto, and some chick steps in front of the subject.

Cerebus

Puppuccinos were given out.

meeting of the day

Gomez Addams, almost a perennial, sometimes more than one