trick or treat
Hey friends,
I might have said this last year: Halloween is by far my favorite holiday, especially now.
October was eerily flawless here in the Northeast. Across a handful of weekend trips I was able to enjoy peak foliage around Boston, Brooklyn, driving up the Hudson River, and back home in Burlington. I’m still processing film from the past few weeks but today’s photo set is all about trick-or-treating.
This year was unusually warm, like mid 70’s, which made it easy for us to cover a huge amount of suburban territory.
Do you remember your “best ever” halloween? If so, what made it your favorite? If not, how’d you spend this year?
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One year as a child I went to a halloween party that mostly existed outside in the woods. They made a haunted walkthrough that included a slide embedded into the forrest floor, with candles or glow sticks stuck in the muck surrounding it, and hidden ghouls jumping out in the dark. It was exhilarating. Someone made veggie chili and every time I smell it I'm taken back to that haunted outdoor cascading slide in my cold black tulle witches dress.
One of my favorite Halloweens was 2019. We went to Beacon Hill, Boston, which I had heard has stellar trick-or-treating. The streets were blocked off to traffic, houses were dolled up to the nines; I remember lanterns looping over our heads in those tiny cobblestone alleys, and chickenwire ghosts in the grass. And there were so many families, kids, adults dressed up. It was just a very festive communal atmosphere in this very picturesque neighborhood.