Still Life with Robin: Halloween is over but you can still enjoy the pumpkin pix!

by Peggy Robin

Let's start with my favorite local blogger, Popville:

https://www.popville.com/2023/10/behold-the-best-dc-halloween-pumpkins/

Here are the pix I took during a quick walk around Cleveland Park on Halloween. (OK, a few are from Georgetown, taken a week earlier):

https://photos.app.goo.gl/QEueuSyVqkmjCkEAA

Now that Halloween is over, you have the entire year ahead to plan your pumpkins for Halloween 2024. Take some tips from a professional pumpkin carver (yes, that's a thing!):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/style/halloween-professional-pumpkin-carver.html?unlocked_article_code=1.70w.tUzB.yItb2_xAVq1F&smid=url-share 

Want to do something less ambitious/more in the amateur league? Some of the pumpkin carving ideas on this Pinterest page are clever and not all that hard to carry out:

https://www.pinterest.ca/rainbow20th/pumpkin-carving-ideas/

You have 362 days to work on it!

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Still Life with Robin is posted on the Cleveland Park Listserv and on All Life Is Local on Saturdays.