Nothing but pumpkins and some corn stalks.

2010, birth of the Harvest Party.

2010 began with a whirlwind of activity. I was bound and determined to bring Spider Woman (a native american legend) to life with the yard. There was going to be a temple and everything. A slew of items most of the public never saw were created.

Statues for the temple…

Combining with some local myths in a nearby canyon that rock formations were witches held by spider woman until the shaman could turn them to stone, I was interpreting to make some mini versions for the yard as well.

Bundled mummies were in progress.

Then came August…

A storm took out our gazebo, which was going to serve as the frame for the temple, and with it most of the items we’d spent the year working on.

I didn’t want to just do our field of skulls we had done for several years at the time, and was looking for things I could do with the remaining time and budget.

Several things conspired to push me into the Harvest direction.

1st, I had gotten comments at work on my ‘depressing’ wallpaper (pictures of my yard at the time) and stumbled on this picture, soon changing my wallpaper to it, and it bored into my head looking at it every day…how simple…how awesome.

Then other comments from haunters complaining about people in their neighborhood that put up “Nothing but pumpkins and some corn stalks”.

Combined, I set out to make nothing but pumpkins and corn stalks something neat. To this day, 2010 is one of my favorite years.