IT WAS HALLOWEEN, and the kids came, and came for almost 2 hours. I was down to an orange and some change -- but they stopped after the last min Snickers was tossed in a pillow case:







Halloween, 2007. Paul insisted on buying candy, 3-4 bags he said. So I did - figuring it would last us for days. Figuring no one would come to the house on the corner that has been occupied by an elderly woman off and on for months. He spookified the front door.


Well, I was wrong. Very wrong. We had the flier - WEN, from 5:30 to 7:30. No one, then at 6:00 the doorbell rang. These kids were in the first 10, of about 75. All the candy: gone; my little raisins: gone; 8 oranges: gone.

So, we are in the suburbs. No one ever knocked at an apartment door. Parents in the street, a few over grown kids (teens) with little kids. Tiny kids in wagons.


Paul has had some lawn / garden stuff (the lion on the park, the snail and finial in the Haversham area).

EVEN I GOT ME SOME CANDY! The kindness of others . . . is a great thing....

In AKRON the NIGHTS are very dark. Paul said that is the biggest difference from living in Chicago or New York. "THE SKY IS BRIGHTER than the landscape at night." Ane he's right -- apartment buildings and the blocks near the Hancock in Chicago were always lit up. Light was in the air all the time.

Here its kind of primitive, sedating, natural. Look at the clouds with a bit of moon light, then at the moon through the branches (from my bedroom window).

We were standing outside tonight checking the door for halloween. The distant twitter of birds, they are flying south (I had forgotton this was something you could see and hear in the early fall). They Filled the sky -- and will fill the lawn in the morning. (same window as the cloud shots).

We have a fireplace, I have never had one. We had the chimney sweep in, although mechanized he had the top hat. where is that maid mary poppins?

Then trees, in the yard, our yard. Birds, squirrels, leaves. Like a park.