arethinn | autumnvent #21

I know it's a tad late for some of these Halloween-related things, but stow them for next year? I have a few leftover Halloween things which I think I may post in "bonus" posts over the next day or so. I'm planning to continue this "autumnvent" in general to the 30th day, which I think is the 9th of November, so there are still some more autumn/harvest/Thanksgiving-related things to come.

Our Halloween porch display by

starlightforest ;)

I am almost afraid of the wind out there.
The dead leaves skip on the porches bare,
The windows clatter and whine.
I sit here in the quiet house, low-lit.
With the clock that ticks and the books that stand.
Wise and silent, on every hand.

I am almost afraid; though I know the night
Lets no ghosts walk in the warm lamplight.
Yet ghosts there are; and they blow, they blow,
Out in the wind and the scattering snow.
When I open the windows and go to bed,
Will the ghosts come in and stand at my head?

--from "Ghosts" by Fannie Stearns Davis

12 "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" icons by