Capsicum Annuum

Or, rather, Wicked Ornamental Peppers.

We put these devil-horned guys in the ground this weekend.  They remind me of Tim Curry's demon creature 'Darkness' from the film LEGEND.

The Rose Of Jericho

A perfectly seasonal-appropriate plant.  Found over at the awesome The Skeleton Key blog.

Click below to learn about this odd little thing...

Porch Decorations

Started the first phase of the porch decor yesterday after work.  We drank pumpkin beer and listened to spooky tunes.  And a neighborhood Halloween cat even stopped by to check it all out.

Weatherworn

Image by Kevin Moore.

Pumpkin Soup And Porch Decor

Enjoying some homemade (and wonderful) pumpkin soup and savoring a porch that's taking shape for the High Holiday.  Last night after work, we went to a favorite farm and picked up ten giant bunches of cornstalks.  This place is a decent drive from here, but it's totally worth it.  Best prices around in an area that pretty much extorts folks when buying pumpkins and corn.  

It was dirty work, but some cold pumpkin ale, pizza from a favorite local place, and a lot of laughs made wiring the [ant-filled] stalks in place a ton of fun.  We worked as the sun was setting and got it all done in record time.  Some neighbors yelled over that they couldn't wait to see this year's Haunt.

I yelled back this year's theme and they seemed really excited.

Late Summer Garden

Still a lot of color out there.  And the pumpkin is looking really good.

Pumpkins

We purchased the first pumpkin of the season this weekend.  Nice to see them showing up in the bins at Trader Joe's.  And in a very cool development, an accidental vine is growing next to the porch, from what I'm assuming were seeds from last year's porch jacko's.  It's doing really well and has two small pumpkins on it.  Really hoping they make it.

Roger's Gardens Halloween 2023

Another neat year.

Click below for a great video...

[Metal] Garden Pumpkin

New purchase from Joann Fabric...  fifty percent off.  Solar LED inside.  Seems happy.

Terrain And Gin

We went to a Ghost concert (it was bananas) on Friday night (will be blogging about that soon), but Saturday was spent Halloween shopping in the morning with a super neat gin-tasting party in the evening.  We started out the morning at an incredible nursery called Terrain (a local sister store to Anthropologie).  The Halloween decorations for sale were stunning.  And their cafe was amazing.  A pretty perfect day.

Definitely heading back there when the pumpkins arrive, as the place seems to be made for the Season.

A trip to the Jersey shore on a gorgeous breezy Sunday finished off the weekend.

Tons of photos below from Saturday...