Halloween Pictures 2025

It’s Fun That Is Funny

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Saint Mary’s Cemetery
Fox Lake, Wisconsin USA
Photo A,M. Moscoso

My hobby is exploring cemeteries and graveyards.

If you’re not in the know, cemeteries are big theme parks for the dead and graveyards are smaller and attached to churches.

I live in Washington state and our graveyards and cemeteries are relatively ‘young’ so the ‘artwork’ is  around the same age and even though they are great places to visit you don’t see a lot of variety as it were.

That’s why when I got to Wisconsin to visit my son and his family we go cemetery exploring together because then I can see headstones and statues that I only see pictures of in books.

Now I am having even more fun because my Granddaughter Jemma is old enough to go along:

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Jemma “
October 2023

When Jemma first went with me she thought monsters were sleeping in the graves so she was somewhat cautious-

Julio and Jemma
August 6th, 20021
Wisconsin USA
Photo A.M. Moscoso

But she is not like that anymore because Wednesday Addams came along, but the truth is she’s my Granddaughter so eventually she was going to start feeling the vibe:

“Jemma”
October 2023
Photo: A..M. Moscoso

Jemma visiting her Great Grandparents:
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Mary’s Cemetery
“Annunciation Cemetery”
Fox Lake Wisconsin, USA October 2024

I’ll be hitting the grounds in a few weeks when I go to Wisconsin to visit my Granddaughters ( the newest addition to our family was born in September so she will probably sit out Cemetery day this year ) and I am hoping to get some great pictures and stories to share.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home and Cemetery

Cemeteries are literally packed with stories and I can’t wait to learn a few more new ones.

A.M

 

Happy Caturday

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Have a spooky Caturday!

Remember the Good Old Days?

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Remember the good old days-

before texting and social media?

If you had a story to tell you had to show up in person – you had to read the room

and find your moment to jump in and shine.

I know that EVERYBODY feels like they are doing that on social media- but all we are doing is standing on a corner in a made up world and shouting into the void together.

Some of us can be heard over the din- but most of us aren’t, just like in the good old days.

I remember writing letters and postcards and talking on the phone ( the one with the curly cords ) with my friends.

But in a pinch when I thought I needed to pull out the big guns to find out what was going on, I went old school- and I do mean OLDE SCHOOL.

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You might say my Ouija board worked liked a charm-it still does.

October’s Eve

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First Witch
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot.

All
Double, double, toil and trouble; (10)
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

All
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Third Witch
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches’ mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg’d i’ the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver’d in the moon’s eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar’s lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe (30)
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaldron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.

All
Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Second Witch
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Second Witch
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!