Jack-🎃-Lantern Spectacular photograph.

We haven’t been in yeeears! I have a funny story about it, although it was not humorous at all when it happened. Probably why we haven’t been since =). Maybe I’ll tell it another day. It has nothing to do with the Spectacular except it’s where we went on a particular evening. Ooo, checking on the proper name of the event, I just found out it starts today! Must go this year, believe my husband is over it. 😅

Mine To Give

“Where are you coming from, all flushed and windblown?”

Tina takes off her scarf and throws it at Miriam. “From seeing the pumpkins at the zoo.”

“The pumpkins are out!”

“Yes, Tim and I went, and he loved it.”

The next night, Miriam and Sinjin stand in line to see thousands of carved pumpkins lit with candles and electric lights along a trail with piped-in music and a spot where huge and tiny pumpkins sit under a pumpkin-decorated tree. The music along the path relates to the carvings, whether places, people, or events. 

A carver works the crowd among pumpkins of King Tut, Bob Dylan, Popeye, an eagle, Mozart, Joe DiMaggio. There’s techno music and fog and pumpkin laughter and they don’t want to leave.

the pumpkins made it into the novel 📇