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Once again, it’s that time of year where pumpkins are carved up and placed on front stoops, hay bails and scarecrows decorate the lawns as well as spooky characters from witches, black cats to ghosts.\u00a0 And, of course, the scariest of all: parents and adults dressed up!<\/p>\n

Occasionally, however, Mother Nature surprises us with a “spooky” character of her own.\u00a0 Such was the case for me last weekend as I was out visiting a “new to me” park near my apartment.\u00a0 Since I am not much of a people or event photographer, I’m always looking for “different” things in nature to photograph.\u00a0 I had just finished taking some photos of a bird when I turned around to leave and had a creepy feeling I was being watched from somewhere near to where I was standing.\u00a0 Looking around I was alone; no other soul in the park that I could see.\u00a0 And then, I looked up, and there it was.\u00a0 No, not a squirrel, or possum, or bird or snake – nothing in the animal family.\u00a0 No, it was like something from a children’s play had wandered in and settled down and it fixed on me.\u00a0 And I just had to laugh.<\/p>\n

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Once again, it’s that time of year where pumpkins are carved up and placed on front stoops, hay bails and scarecrows decorate the lawns as well as spooky characters from witches, black cats to ghosts.\u00a0 And, of course, the scariest of all: parents and adults dressed up! Occasionally, however, Mother Nature surprises us with a “spooky” character of her own.\u00a0 Such was the case for me last weekend as I was out visiting a “new to me” park near my apartment.\u00a0 Since I am not much of a people or event photographer, I’m always looking for “different” things in nature to photograph.\u00a0 I had just finished taking some photos of a bird when I turned around to leave and had a creepy feeling I was being watched from somewhere near to where I was standing.\u00a0 Looking around I was alone; no other soul in the park that I could see.\u00a0 And then, I looked up, and there it was.\u00a0 No, not a squirrel, or possum, or bird or snake – nothing in the animal family.\u00a0 No, it was like something from a children’s play had wandered in and settled down and it fixed on me.\u00a0 And I just had to laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2y5uS-cN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enrjyzr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}