november first. it's a beautiful day outside. sun shining, burnt sienna leaves falling, remnants of last night's festivities decorating homes...on porches sit pumpkins carved with expressions of curiosity and drollery, maladriot scarecrows rest in gardens, synthetic cobwebs blow off shrubs and into the streets...

i was lucky enough to go trick or treating last night with chelsea and ella. i'm embarrassed to admit that it had only been eight years since my last trick-or-treating experience...and i'm 28. you can do the math. all i can say about that is that i had a very fun-loving boyfriend in college who loved peanut m and m's...enough to get dressed up with me and go out soliciting candy in-between studying for physics and astronomy exams :) that year, i was a native american maiden and he was a technicolor cowboy. this year, i wore my homemade forest gnome costume and ella zipped into her tiny pink, fluffy piglet disguise. she was beyond cuteness. i'll let the pictures speak for themselves :)

more to come tonight...