Figure 1 – Bowl Ball Garden decorated for Halloween. (c) ABW 2014.

Halloween is pretty much my favorite holiday.  What could be better: costumes, candy, and really no religious baggage – Día de Muertos.  So it is pretty much with remorse each year when November rolls around.  Sometime in the seventies Halloween started to become a big deal commercially: costumes for adults, home decorating, and the like.  I am a great fan of giant blowup pumpkins, spiders, and ghosts!

But yesterday a reader posted on his Facebook page a picture from Wisconsin of his neighbors bowling ball garden, decorated for Halloween.  Every bowling ball had a ghoulish mask.  So I asked this reader to send me a higher resolution shot from his IPhone, which he was kind enough to do.  So as I take down the “Halloween Gallery” for another year, I thought that I would share this snapshot with you.  Also, I am hoping that it inspires people all over the world to decorate their bowling ball gardens for appropriate holidays: Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, Diwali.  The possibilities are endless.