I have a confession to make.  We haven’t carved a pumpkin into a jack o’lantern at my house in years.  Even when we did carve them, our creations never moved much beyond a toothy grin and a couple of triangle eyes.  Instead of carving pumpkins last night, we went to visit a giant display of carved pumpkins that boggle the eye.  Just getting to the pumpkin display is an adventure as it involves turning down many back country roads in the dark.  I’m just glad my husband knew the general direction to get us close enough to the pumpkin signs with arrows pointing the next turn.

How do you even begin to describe the sight of a couple of hundred (more or less) jack o’lanterns stacked on three wagons and trailing across the front porch and around the wall?  We saw monsters and minions (yes, Dru was there, too), black cats and zombies, country churches and woodland scenes.  Some had intricate designs scraped into the skin.  There is even a graveyard with funny epitaphs on the tombstones.

Since there is no way to describe the sight in anything less than thousands of words, I’ll leave you with a gallery of my favorite pictures:

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