Forget zombies and vampires. If there was ever a year we needed our imaginations, it’s this one. The people below have, and the results are amazing! I loved creating crazy Halloween decorations and costumes as a kid. But nowadays I leave that to the folks who show up at our front door. Of course, trick-or-treaters will be in short supply this year, but imagination never is. Imagination opens doors no pandemic can close. Still, dude, if you do happen to show up at our front door showing this kind of imagination, you’re gonna score a whole a lotta candy!
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“Everything you can imagine is real.” ~Pablo Picasso
“What is now proved was once only imagined.” ~William Blake
“When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.” ~Susan Sarandon
“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ~Albert Einstein
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ~John Steinbeck
“Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” ~Gloria Steinem
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” ~Muhammad Ali
“It’s delightful when your imaginations come true, isn’t it?”
~L.M. Montgomery
Mitch Teemley 
These are amazing costumes, Mitch. That house with the eyes is brilliant.
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I’m still trying to work out why the pregnant women is carrying a red bucket? Some real mind benders 🤣
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I was puzzling over the bucket, too. Maybe that’s what they use to go clam digging?
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To you Mitch! Our dear Hi School friend Lynda Grossburg Called Tuesday afternoon & said she might have to evacuate because if the fires In the Anaheim Hills area & could she come to my house. I said absolutely!! @ 8:15 she call & said the alert just came that they had 1/2 hr to evacuate. She spent the night & I was blessed that she was with me. The next day she returned home & all seamed ok at her home though the wind continued to blow & cause damage to her trees & landscape. A few hrs later she sent a text to say she had a rash under her arm & back & was going to Kaiser ER. The dr told her she has Shingles. I’m asking prayer for her.. she is on a very strong antibiotic & we can only hope it agrees with her system. She’s so tiny & no body fat to fight off the problem though so pls pray for her..
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Absolutely, Chris! Thanks for sharing this with me. Prayers in progress.
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I got an emergency alert earlier today from the New Mexico governor saying that due to the recent spike in positive covid-19 tests, there will be no trick or treating anywhere in the state.
Oh darn. That means we will have to eat all that Halloween candy ourselves…
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Oh, how I looked forward to that Halloween big candy haul when I was a kid. But, no, we’re actually not doing it this year, either; it just seems too risky.
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I agree, too risky. We weren’t planning to do Halloween this year either, because of covid. I was just kidding about having a lot of Halloween candy. But the little bit of candy we do have, we are going to eat all by ourselves. 😋
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By the way, that guy with all the loose skin… I wish I could unsee that.
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You know that’s a mask, right? It, and a bunch of other hyper-realistic masks, are actually for sale.
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Wild and weird!
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great pics and quotes!
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VERY MUCH AS ADVERTISED! ANY OF THTESE GOING TO SHOW UP THIS YEAR????
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Some are homemade, of course, but others are out there for sale now, Jonathan.
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i do remember one of my younger cousins showing up at our door as an inflated T. REX!
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
CREATIVITY THAT’S SCARY!!!
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Love the baby carrot! And LOL at the red solo cup! They are all definitely imaginative!
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Wow, some of these are absolutely amazing.
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Amazing costumes and great quotes! 🎃👻🦇🕷️🕸️
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Dinosaurs, Scissorhands, clams with pearls … pure genious!
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Mitch,
Man, you I love it. We so much love creatives!
Thanks,
Gary
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