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Walk: 10/30/24
10 months ago
“When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season." — then dies the man in you;” - Ralph W. Emerson
I went out for quite a while; 2 hours. It wasn't chilly at all, but it was windy which is nice. I tried to see the Halloween decorations of my area. I think about 5% or so were decorated. That's more than the last several years I think.
Most were modest, but there were a few spectacular ones and even more that were just a single spider or bedsheet. My mom and it seems most like the house with the big monsters, a big snake, giant spiders and bats on the roof, several giant skeletons and werewolves and a ball of skeletons waltzing. That house is always a treat and puts everyone else to shame, except, in my eyes, one neighbor whose decorations I actually like more. A bunch of skeletons of all kinds on their pretty huge lawn (they're on an end so they got lots of it, and..) but best of all is the rings they put up to make a "tunnel" around their house. It's got mini animal skeletons and smaller monsters in it. It was actually making me pretty excited to walk all through that sidewalk. I always like the tunnel sorts of feelings. My favorite memories of older Halloweens were generally the homes with generous porches to walk into, like entering a dungeon. The house with the mini witches and mini ghosts still has those but their big versions are gone, but they're all not dead on the ground for once too.
The walk ended with the first grey sky in..about a month or two. I really don't think I've seen one in that long. I've been feeling really defeated and beat down by the endless blue. I'm so happy, even if it lasted not very long because I was mainly out in the dark. It did rain very lightly once. The grey was very dark, with splotches and dots of lighter grey, all moving at a very fast pace like the wind. That's what Halloween weather should be! (and chilly but fuckin Texas never delivers on that..)
Most were modest, but there were a few spectacular ones and even more that were just a single spider or bedsheet. My mom and it seems most like the house with the big monsters, a big snake, giant spiders and bats on the roof, several giant skeletons and werewolves and a ball of skeletons waltzing. That house is always a treat and puts everyone else to shame, except, in my eyes, one neighbor whose decorations I actually like more. A bunch of skeletons of all kinds on their pretty huge lawn (they're on an end so they got lots of it, and..) but best of all is the rings they put up to make a "tunnel" around their house. It's got mini animal skeletons and smaller monsters in it. It was actually making me pretty excited to walk all through that sidewalk. I always like the tunnel sorts of feelings. My favorite memories of older Halloweens were generally the homes with generous porches to walk into, like entering a dungeon. The house with the mini witches and mini ghosts still has those but their big versions are gone, but they're all not dead on the ground for once too.
The walk ended with the first grey sky in..about a month or two. I really don't think I've seen one in that long. I've been feeling really defeated and beat down by the endless blue. I'm so happy, even if it lasted not very long because I was mainly out in the dark. It did rain very lightly once. The grey was very dark, with splotches and dots of lighter grey, all moving at a very fast pace like the wind. That's what Halloween weather should be! (and chilly but fuckin Texas never delivers on that..)
