These are all the pumpkins I got this year. Sometimes I will drag out my old autumn wreath but haven't in several years. But I don't decorate for Halloween. It's more an autumnal thing and remains until the day after Thanksgiving. And knock wood, no spirits here besides my husband who is often in evidence...

Autumn is not my favorite time of year as to me it's an ending. It's often gray and gloomy and gets colder as it progresses. Some years, and this is one, the foliage is glorious, but that doesn't, in my mind, make up for the other stuff.