One of the things I like the most about the Halloween season is how the perfectly ordinary can seem just a little bit spooky and fantastical if you let yourself see it in a different light. Over the past couple of weeks I've been taking pictures of some late season pictures in the garden and the woods. These are plants at the end of their cycles, either slowly dying down or finally producing their fruits. There isn't anything particularly spooky about any of them, but together they belong in the witches' garden.
The toxic leaves...
The mysterious mushrooms...
The spooky dead tree with who knows what inside those holes....
The blackened heart...
The poisonous berries....
The bloodshot eyes on stalks...
The weird, dark foliage...
The candy-colored berries guaranteed to give you a stomach ache...
And the very dark and dead flowers.
You'll have to use your imagination to hear the wind rustle the dead leaves and the crows calling in the trees, and to smell the wet leaves and wood smoke.
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