I stood slack-jawed at the adorability: A baby skunk, doling out candy for the revelers, and almost bringing me to tears for the echoes of toddler Phoebe she conjured up.
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Her mother confessed, "I keep weeping, she's so sweet, and she takes it all so seriously, making sure everyone gets a piece of candy."
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I had to use flash on her, just to try to capture those apple cheeks. But oh, I love shooting without flash, and seeing what happens.
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The images got progressively spookier as it got darker.
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something about the blur makes Liam look like a toddler...going back in time, as Phoebe morphs into the real Hobbes, or Krazy Kat...
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They meet up with their wonderful Granny and GeePop, who always put on the dog for trick-or-treaters, with the scarily realistic and locally famous Witch of Warren Street taking over for Elsa as GeePop plays spooky arpeggios on the organ just inside the parlor.
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A zomb0-lantern
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My favorite jack-o-lantern of the night. His wife says he always carves the same one, every year, and she's tired of it. I'm not! I made sure he knew that I thought it was brilliant. It's so...hopeless.
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Our jack-o-lanterns at home. Liam's design, Bill's pig, and Phoebe and my zombie hamster.
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Counting out the loot with cousin Gus.
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Now that's scary!
I'll leave you with some of my favorite captures from Halloween night.
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You had to go up on this porch and get your candy corn. There was nobody there, just the house's eyes staring out at you. Eeeee!
I loved this cat on this porch, and I caught Liam in the porch light.
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And then something really weird happened, and Liam became something Other, something slumping off Goon Island.
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It was a magical night. And it smelled so delicious.
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