Costumes

October 31costumes,street musician, new orleans

I am thankful for costumes, that is, dressing up in them and seeing others using their creative skills to design costumes. We see them most during Halloween. Halloween may rub many people the wrong way but the part I enjoy are seeing the people dressed up creativity.  It allows us to step outside of ourselves for good, clean fun (hopefully).

This is a photo of a street musician in New Orleans' French Quarter who had painted his clothes and face. That to me is a costume of sort. But I just liked his look. Below is not exactly a costume but a Halloween-like display in a shop in New Orleans. The theme again is music, but this one was a ghoulishly haunting melody.

October 31bhalloween, costumes,skeleton playing piano

ghouls and goblins

ghouls and goblins

and shady characters

roaming the streets

and chilling me to the bone

these shady characters

looking for eats

as around they slyly roam

i have to be careful not to be seen

and keep low to the ground

as i sneak stealthily around

is it october thirty-first?

nah, just a normal day in town.

© rt tulley

Finally, below is a self portrait photo taken by my son John. It is too good not to include it here. This is his makeup wizardry for which he won first place at the Spanish Moon's Zombie Night contest. Don't you think he looks a lot like his old man?

October 31czombie,john's costume