Yes, that's a lit Christmas tree in an apartment at Washington and Beech streets tonight. And while you can't tell from the photo, the lights were blinking.
A roving UHub correspondent, meanwhile, reports another lit tree on Canterbury Street, opposite the Sacred Heart School.
BosGuy posts photos of the Apple and Steve Jobs-themed jack o'lanterns a Union Park Street resident carved and lit up last night.
Father Tim tweets:
Only in Hingham: When people run out of candy, they start handing out cash. Seriously.
Poor Gumby. Gets on the Red Line and nobody pays him any attention, except for Courtney Burns, who took this photo.
Dana Reichman Gitell spotted this guy just standing there in Dedham this morning.
Following the recent unpleasantness, Somerville mayor Joe Curtatone surprised the crowd at the city's Halloween parade with an unexpected disguise today.
Everyone can agree that the economy is rough. This holiday season, more than usual, is important to local retailers. Small businesses in Porter and Davis squares now have another hurdle to deal with starting November 5th, no red line service on the weekends. The residents probably aren't happy about it either.
The Salem News reports: Witches accused of zombie abuse.
Police expressed some frustration with the situation and an off-the-record longing for November.
Sounds like a job for Vimes of the City Watch.
Tprussman photographed a Sukkot celebration at Occupy Boston yesterday.
At least at the West Roxbury Home Depot, 80-degree temperatures on this Columbus Day weekend (and Thanksgiving) be damned.
Channel 4 is conflicted:
WBZ's Jim Armstrong spoke off camera with the widow of one of Bulger's alleged murder victims. She's disgusted by the idea someone would not just make such a costume, but that anyone else would dress up as a man accused of murdering 19 local people.
But it seems, if you're not personally connected to the man or his legendary wrath, you might be OK with it.
Paul Keleher visited the pumpkin patch outside the Carter Memorial Church in Needham.
I was not ready to be confronted with this when I walked into the West Roxbury Shaw's yesterday (it was right at one of the entrances). To paraphrase our own Suldog, "Labor Day comes first!"
Yoni Appelbaum reports on days of yore when Salem would light massive bonfires to herald July Fourth:
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