2024 Halloween Imaging in November

Halloween this year was on a Thursday. I incorrectly guessed that people would keep their Halloween decorations into the weekend. Besides a few people having already started taking in items, a few balloons were deflated.

Imagining I might take good daytime images, initially hoped to capture more striking nighttime versions. Having less stamina than in the past, and also seeing dismantling of decorations lessened ambition for an evening pic excursion.

In the last day of movie-making, I shoehorned a few clips and pix from the rest of November during the rest of November. Look for a li'l Thanksgiving and Halloweenish Christmas peeks.

Lesson learned for 2025—take pix and videos a few days before Halloween (daytime for one session, nighttime for another session).

Visit past Halloween videos ("Halloween Decorations Galore!") and related blog articles.

2022 Halloween Nearby Tour

Amazingly, I've recorded five years' worth of Halloween decorations nearby. Some sites are familiar, although these homeowners tend to vary their scenes with some prop change-outs or rearrangings. Decorations didn't pop up plentifully until about a week or so before Halloween; most of them gone only a few days afterward.

This Halloween felt like a return to pre-pandemic normalcy. In 2020, several decorated houses put up social-distancing tables for handing out their goodies to trick or treaters rather than wait for doorbell rings.

The video includes scenery from 25 houses, most taken on October 30 and 31. All pix and videos were during day time. (This year, I passed on night shots and recording.)

I noticed mostly balloons for props. Skeletons and disjointed skeleton bones were prominent. A few ambitious sites showed a ghoulish scene, a pirate ship theme, graveyards with tombstones, .... The video closes with a turkey emerging from a pumpkin to hail (?) the coming of Thanksgiving.

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2022 Halloween Nearby Tour
Roving Around Halloween 2021
2020 Halloween Meandering
2019 Halloween, Pre-pandemic Year
Halloween Scenes Around (2018)
Related: April Fooling Easter Halloween and More (from 2018)

Enjoy YouTube Halloween themes playlists: "Baker's Dozen Halloween YouTube Links", "Halloween Music Baker's Dozen Matter"