Jennifro

Witchy Poo's

Here's me at 60. I hate myself aleady. Do you ever dink around with the photo settings and just try to see how heinous you can make yourself? I do. All the time. Then I say sorry and go back and make myself look better than a actually do. I am all about the costume. When I was little I loved it and always wanted to transform myself...the uglier, the scarier, the better. Jill was the opposite she always wanted to be something pretty. We're still the same even now. I'm always disappointed when I'm a nice, friendly witch or whatever and not a freaky, stinky one with a nose ring and gaggly eye.

So last Saturday was the Potomac Parade. Years ago, Julie, my friend right down there with the great smile, started this witching tradition. Four or five of us would dress up and go "witching." This meant driving around in one of her awesome vintage cars and dropping in on friends--armed with treats, gifts, hexes whatever. It eventually evolved into being part of the town parade. Anyway, we took a few years off but this year were begged back. It was a barrel of cackles...

Julie is awesome and has great style and taste, she has pretty much outfitted all of us at one time or another with witchy and non-witchy type clothes..I have her to thank for my red wig that I can't wait to slip on every year.

It was a super overcast morning..this is what Nick and Mary's driveway looked like on the way out. Gorgeous or what?

The Witchy Poos. Last time we did this, we had double the hags. We were pretty impressive that year....not a bad turnout this time around, though.

Witches and burning bushes: apropo

Diane Keaton?

How bout this car? Complete with a pale-faced chauffeur. Check out the license plate and on the side she put a huge "Follow me to Markoff's Haunted Forest" vinyl sticker. Thanks Jules!

I love this picture taken on my way home. There was a fantastical, melancholy mood about with the ominous gray clouds, misting rain, red trees lining the streets and a pair of black robed witches going about their business...