Photo A.M. Moscoso

I love to watch an artist paint or sketch.

A line here, a swipe there a flick of the wrist and like magic an image appears.

It’s magical it really is magical.

I wish that I could carve pumpkins with that same magical  ease.

A cut there, a little slice there a flick of the wrist there and there and like magic a face appears on my pumpkin- maybe it will be a screaming face, a laughing face a face with too many eyes or not enough teeth.

I think about carving pumpkins a lot during Halloween and when it isn’t anywhere near Halloween I still think about carving pumpkins-

among other things.

Photo: A.M Moscoso