13: How Do You Boo?
1. In October the Blue Ridge Parkway is an arcade jackpot of color. Cars, like flipper-driven pin balls, shoot up and down the ribboned road while autumn lights flash, “You’re a winner!” More HERE.
2. I once bought a whole box of fortune cookies so I could find a fortunate message I liked.
3. If a bunch of geese is a gaggle and crows are a murder, what are the ghosts in the photo above?
4. THIS graffiti artist paints rooms and beds for homeless people.
5. I had two opportunities to dance to two of my favorite bands at Dogtown over the weekend. Time is Art played Friday and Spoon Fight on Saturday (which is where I snapped the reflection of the band in the glass door.) I also spent some time in the local tattoo shop (now owned by two Spoon Fight players). The tattoo art was impressive, but I wasn’t tempted, thinking that tattoo needles are like writing with pens, as compared to pencils that come with erasers. HERE’S my kind of body art.
6. If autumn is called fall because of the falling leaves, maybe summer should be called sunshine or bloom.
7. Serotonin is like sunshine to our brains. We’re happy when it shines and our perceptions become dark and cloudy without it, which is probably why I instinctively turn my face to track the sun like a heliotropic flower.
8. I don’t know why some people these days flaunt breast implants. When I grew up falsies were shameful and fauxhawks were only for babies.
9. I like to take pictures around town and of local businesses’ windows during holidays and especially at 
Halloween. The photo above came from the Winter Sun Clothing outlet store. It reminds me to get my teeth cleaned and makes me miss my friend Rio. See Rio’s pumpkin art, which we saw all over town during Halloween for so many years, HERE.
10. Even the wheelbarrows in front of our local hardware store are orange.
11. If you don’t want to find yourself experimenting with very-orange cauliflower, a
bright orange face mask, orange paste in your refrigerator, or orange teeth, then don’t
put THIS on your shopping list, says Fresh Bites Daily HERE.
12. How Do You Boo 1 is HERE and 2 is HERE . And the picture on the left is of the police phone booth that Dr. Who time travels from, so said the kids at Floyd’s Springhouse Community School where I saw it and had to ask.
13. My grandson Liam had an October birthday. That’s my sweet boy below in the orange shirt.
October 22nd, 2014 9:07 pm
A school where Dr. Who makes appearances can’t be that bad. They sound like a fun bunch!
October 23rd, 2014 1:23 am
Lovely Tardus.
I found a recipe for fortune cookies because I thought I could do better. Never got around to making them, though.
October 23rd, 2014 5:09 am
Thanks for that “Spooky, Spooky” song, CR. Yeah. Thanks a bunch. Wait until my colleagues hear me singing it. And you know they will. Like I already don’t have enough trouble fitting in. Great.
October 23rd, 2014 7:32 am
The ghosts above are an annual boo-marang. Ouch. Sorry, it is pre-coffee for me and the the coffee maker just dinged.
October 23rd, 2014 7:42 am
love those boys a boogle of ghosts
gotta love a cross eyed pumpkin
October 23rd, 2014 9:07 am
Ha Ha, Ron. I forgot about that song. It’s from How Do You Boo 2012, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPRaY5QWKIk
Now I’m singing along with you!
I love a boo-marang and boogle of ghosts!
October 23rd, 2014 9:28 am
Love your Thirteen Thursdays and writing style… wonderful, simple, honest 🙂
October 23rd, 2014 10:16 am
I’m booing fine. How ’bout you.
There’s another Oct. birthday too…today actually. Desmond is one!
Great pictures Coll. They made my serotonin feel as though it’s a sunny day.
October 23rd, 2014 10:52 am
Love the ghostly Halloween display in the top photo. I’ve been photographing seasonal decorations during my walks this month, planning to share some over the next week. My T13
October 23rd, 2014 2:06 pm
I think I’d call them a ghoul of ghosts.
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and it tends to be the one I don’t celebrate. Weird, huh.
October 23rd, 2014 2:42 pm
Aww. I love the house and pumpkin and the police box! You do Halloween proud.
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October 23rd, 2014 10:52 pm
Now I’m in the Holiday spirit — thank you. Cute post.
Years ago my dad bought my baby sister a whole box of fortune cookies because she loved getting them at the Chinese restaurant. She cried an cried because she thought the fortune was specially made for her and it upset her that just anybody could get a box.