I can vividly remember the first time I saw a giant Halloween inflatable on someone's front lawn. I was driving along one evening just after dark, when there, high on a hilltop, sat the largest inflatable pumpkin I had ever seen. I slowed down. My head turned.
I didn't swerve. I didn't hit a tree. I didn't plow into a crowd of pedestrians. But I did admire it. It was bright. It was stunning. It was unique. It was the embodiment of Halloween. I had not seen its like before.
Then, suddenly, I saw its like everywhere.
The unique has become ubiquitous.
7 comments:
LOL yeh, but I hate to think what will come next in the decorating fads! I prefer old fasioned, bales of hay, pumpkins, and some scarecrows to add spice! LOL
I'm with Judith - give me a creaky gate, a few handmade gravestones, some hay and a pile of pumpkins anyday!
Amen sister!!!! That is why I own a dart gun :D
Cheers!
Just kidding...really....
Lol! It is tempting sometimes :)
Judith & Rue - I'm with you :)
I laugh, I laugh! I had a friend who hated those things with a vengeance. He would rant on and on about how horrible they are. Funny thing is, our neighbor 2 doors down, has brother who works for a company that sells them, so he gets new ones for gifts all the time. We come the other night, and he had a Santa in a hot air balloon on the lawn that his brother gave him for his birthday. UGH! I can appreciate the larger than life, in your face factor....but then the love affair ends.
Lol! Some of the Christmas inflatables make the Halloween versions look conservative. Santa in a hot air balloon. What were they thinking?!!
I've gott agree with Judith too...I like the less 'artificial, in your face' look myself. :)
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