Getting Ready For Halloween

I'm getting in the spirit of Halloween with some photos of Halloween decorations and treats that I took in my neighborhood in the past. 

As many of you know, I am a now a snowbird and spend 6 months in Florida and the remainder of the time in Pennsylvania. 

Beautiful Fall Mums At A Local Market in Pa.

We came to Florida early this season, so I'm celebrating one of my first Halloween's in South Florida. Perhaps it is because our condo is in a city- type area with high rise buildings, but I see no signs anywhere of the upcoming celebration. (we do have lots of kids in the buildings)

Yesterday, I found out that there will be trick or treating in my 23 story building with 600 units. If I'm going to give out candy, I need to sign up and my name will be added to a list for the trick or treaters. Makes sense! 

Despite no decorations in my Florida neighborhood, I'm getting in the spirit with my old photos from back North! Come join me!

These spooky guys were actually sitting on a stoop in my son's neighborhood in New York when I went to visit him.
This is one of my favorites.

A friend made these snacks for refreshments at my Mah Jong game

Love the orange mums 

Love this family of  scarecrows 

The farm, a block from my house in Pennsylvania, harvests their pumpkins and sells them before Halloween

Cute trick or treat bag and some little pumpkin cake balls 

These pumpkins were carved by a neighbor in Pennsylvania  He has a big display in his garage the night before Halloween. He is quite talented.

Pumpkin Red Lentil Soup (link to recipe)

Crudite and Dip Anyone? 

Bye Bye

Happy Halloween !!

Are you going to any Halloween Parties? 

PS: As a few bloggers have noticed, my RSS feed seems to have started working again. There is a place to give feedback to Google (who runs blogger) and let them know but they do not communicate back. I did that twice and the RSS feed seems to be working now. However, on the Reading List my thumbprint photos don't appear and on Bloglovin' my lead photo is very blurry. Not sure how it is on the other feeds. But I'm thankful for some presence again!!