Halloween means, among other things…jack-o-lanterns! I’ve managed to photograph all the jack-o-lanterns carved each Halloween (more-or-less) since our move to the St. Louis area in 1990. Here’s a year-by-year inventory:
1992: well, Mo outdid me with her large jack-o-lantern in the middle
1993: okay, the vomitting jack-o-lantern is commonplace nowadays, but this was 1993, and I came up with this one on my own. Also: a cyclops and one upside-down
1994: not too well focused. Included a eyeless blind cave jack-o-lantern
1995? Well, guess I didn’t get a photo that year.
1996: an 8-eyed spider jack-o-lantern, and a sideways one
1997: a spike-to-the-head dead jack-o-lantern, a gum-blowing one, and a cannibal (and victim) one. Looks like a prop year.
1998: a jolly big-jowled jack-o-lantern, a stem for a nose one, and a bolts-to-the-head Frankenstein one
1999: a dang cat wandered into the shot. I think the glow-in-the-dark glasses were from a box of Count Chocula
2000: another bout of sickness this year. Note the Calvin (minus Hobbes) laughing jack-o-lantern – guess he got a chuckle over K’s costume
2001: didn’t get the photo done on time, so this was from the next day. A smiley emoticon jack-o-lantern 😉 and a Courage the Cowardly Pumpkin
2002: a large cycloptic jack-o-lantern, and a return of the glow-in-the-dark glasses
2003: I was really tired this Halloween, as were the jack-o-lanterns
2004: A homestarrunner.com Halloween, with Homestar and Trogdor!
2005: uh…shock and awe? My interest was flagging by this point.
2006: my pièce de résistance, the Jack-o-toaster
2008: how lazy is this? An Osage Orange in an open “jack-o-lantern”
Good luck with your jack-o-lantern carving this year!
ADDENDUM:
2012: more lazy carving. NO, it’s not a “square” and a “triangle”, it’s stop and rewind
"é rayhahn, rayhahn" 
The Trogdor pumpkin is really cool.
Thanks Daddy, You have so many good ideas, most of which we don’t even find searching online.
alright, when are you going to go to gravatar.com and get an avatar??