Today is Halloween, which these days seems to be a holiday for adults as well as children. Most of the celebrating took place this past Saturday night, although here in Denver a snowstorm put a damper (pun intended) on the festivities. However, in other cities across the nation, the party went on, and included a shooting at a Halloween gathering in Chicago that injured 16 people, a shooting in Tampa that killed 2 and injured 18, one in Indianapolis that left 1 dead and nine injured, as well as parties that left 3 dead in Texarkana, Texas, and 2 each dead in Dodge City, Kansas, San Antonio, Texas, and Mansfield, Ohio. Since October 31st is on a weekday this year, those trick-or-treaters should have a safe outing, although these days, you never know. The 2nd Amendment crowd will, of course, argue that if those party goers were all armed, none of this would have happened. I have a vision of that in my mind, and it is not pretty. In any case, hopefully trick-or-treating will be a much more low-key affair in Stuart, Florida, where I took the photograph above of my mother Mary in front of a shop window in Old Town back on Halloween in October of 2000. Simpler times back then, or is it still the same as it always was down there? One can only hope.
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