A Traditional Visit To The Gardens
We departed Casa Valencia at noon and south to Roger's Gardens. They always have interesting displays of Halloween goodies. This tradition has been going on for years now! We had hope to go with the Duda's but the COVID got them and they stayed home!
The video below is from their annual YouTube post as is about 200MB is size but it provides and excellent overview of what we saw on the visit!
"The Spider and the Fly: A Fable" – Mary Howitt
"Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly,
"'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I have many curious things to shew when you are there."
"Oh no, no," said the little Fly, "to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair can ne'er come down again."
Roger's Gardens Halloween 2023
This old boy is from my old neighborhood... I thought he might want to say hello!
Don't I look just like him?
Skulls everywhere!
The choo choo was out and running in circles.
These pumpkins have warts!
Knucklehead pumpkins are most often used as a decorative pumpkin, but can also be used cooked. When you cook warty pumpkins, you will get a very sweet and mild flavor. These warty pumpkins are ideally suited to roasting, baking and boiling for your recipes.
The entrance was spooky but we managed to go in without any serious consequences.
Anyone need a bonnet for Halloween?
"Here's looking at you!"
Shopping is not our favorite thing to do but today we made an exception!
An oldie but goodies!
Mary should hang our her shingle!
There were a mess of dolls to choose from.
Not something we would put in our front room!
Spookie fellows!
Then there was the not so scary!
Where could we put this so no one would see it?
"Mirror mirror on the wall; who is the handsomeness warlock of all?"
They all started giggling at the same time!
Becky's friend Anthony says hello!
We had food along with a glass of wine!
We had mushroom soup and it was terrific!
Back home again after a trip to Home Depot!
"Where have you been? I have been worried!!"
"I'm serious! I get to go next time!"
