Philippa R. Francis

A stop sign. Under the stop sign, another, red rectangular, sign is affixed. It says "Actually stop. Like, for real."

Someone in my neighborhood got FED. UP.

As food assistance runs out and he refuses to use the contingency fund— he posts about his new marble bathroom

My cats made me post this....

As Halloween draws near, and the veil between our world and the other side begins to break, please remember that the moss goblins, leaf ghouls, twig witches, and undead swamp knights need friends too, just like we all do.

Heavily edited gardenia flower shrub in dark purple and green.

Playing with colors...Halloween Edition. 😉😁

Goodnight from Jonathan Dinmel, wishing his route across Northmoor didn’t take him passed the Devil’s Spire. Goodnight from the children of Woodend village, tramping its surrounding lanes in delight at being equipped with mangelwurzel lanterns and spirit whips. Goodnight from Hookland.

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated. A strange-looking alien with artificial antennae made from tin foil emerged.

"Greetings, Earthlings!! We come in..." It consulted a device. "In trick or treat?"

Four October moth highlights: The marvellous MERVEILLE DU JOUR, the SATELLITE, a YELLOW-LINE QUAKER & a FEATHERED THORN #teammoth

A Maple tree says “look at me” in my #Fall foliage here among the tall pines.

#Autumn #Yellow #Monochrome #Colorapop #EastCoastKin

The Eurasian Jay, extremely intelligent, they can hide acorns in thousands of places. The few they forget end up growing as trees. Expanding the forest for the next generation. This one got its fill of peanuts by a local feeder!

#wildlifephotography #wildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography

I am going to sit quietly a while and honour my ancestors, after I’ve had a cuppa.
Samhain blessings or Happy Halloween from us all in the Shed, however you choose to mark the day

I just got royalty payments from HarperCollins and Macmillan. $9 and $21 respectively if you were wondering how it is being a successful published author. 😂

& wave of lashing rain as light decays, blackbirds dinking & a wren tuts in the hawthorn (brief silhouette crosses the lamp that burns all night above the door of an empty house); on a night to be in it is good to be out, & return to a candle lit in the window

🤗

An illustration of a skeleton, carrying a jack-o'-lantern candy bucket and a black umbrella, walking down a path with a black cat. The scene is set on a rainy, autumn night with a full moon and bats flying in the sky. The background features bare trees, falling leaves, and two spooky-looking houses.

🖼️ Leanne Hatch

For #FallFoliageFriday, I shot this yesterday at the Point Defiance Japanese Garden. #tacoma #pnw

Happy Birthday to 🇬🇧 British radio, theatre, film and television actor, comedian, writer and presenter #SanjeevBhaskar OBE born #OnThisDay in Ealing, England

A black and white illustration of a dark, shadowy figure with two large, white, circular eyes. The figure is composed of a series of horizontal lines, giving it a textured or striped appearance. The initials "E.T.S." are visible in the bottom right corner.

Goodnight.
🖼️ Ernest Thompson Seton #31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

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all hollows eve
wind chimes and bird feeders
spilling their guts

#haiku #senryu

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

More Halloween costume ideas:
- dark librarian
- mossy nook
- mildly inappropriate Muppet
- sexy bog corpse
- queen of the wildlands, perfumed in rum and malice

Here is the long and short of it.

the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands . ALT: the man is wearing a suit and tie and clapping his hands .

Very good…

<waves>

Happy Halloween everyone.
#WorldBollardAssociation 👻

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ~Edgar Allan Poe

Vintage Halloween card: Halloween in red at base, group of figures in costumes standing in a nighttime setting with a large jack-o'-lantern in the foreground. A large, grinning jack-o'-lantern on the ground in the foreground. Three figures in costumes standing behind the pumpkin. The central figure is dressed in a white, ghost-like sheet with a simple, pale mask. To the left, a figure wears a red and brown costume with a pointed hat and a mask resembling a skull. To the right, a smaller figure is in a blue and yellow costume with a white mask. In the background, a man in a formal suit and bow tie stands on a rocky outcrop. The setting includes a full moon, an owl perched on a tree branch, and a dark, forested landscape.

#31DaysOfHalloween #Gothtober

Lillian I didn't realise when I woke up this morning that I was going to write a spooky story in its entirety, nor quite what it was going to be about (apart from an unnerving memory from my childhood about a...

I didn't realise when I woke up this morning that I was going to write a spooky story in its entirety, nor quite sure what it was going to be about. Then I remembered today was Halloween, so I thought: Why not post it here? www.tom-cox.com/lillian/

Perfect night to support this. 👇 #Halloween

Photo shows an overgrown hedge. One thorn branch dangles weighted down with blood-red haws.The poem reads ~ strangling ivy climbs/ rag-leather leaves hang:/ the hawthorn bleeds in berries

#Gothtober photopoem shared 31st October 2025