Showing posts with label van cortlandt manor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label van cortlandt manor. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

BLAZE! (aka The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze), Part 3

Traffic flow is much better this year as we move through the manor grounds. There's always a crowd, and if you want good photos, you need to take them without flash, generally. Make an exception and use fill flash if you want the folks you are with in your shot, but if you have a clean tissue handy, cover the flash with it so you don't get a huge whiteout. (Wish I'd had a tissue handy when we got to the new covered bridge...)

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Also new this year is the safari section.

elephant

giraffe

tiger

lion

And there are some critters from previous years around, too, like the field full of snakes, and the fish.

snakes

sturgeon

And here, right in the middle of the fish section, we spotted this little gate crasher when someone's flash went off:

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Another new and nifty feature was the set of jack in the boxes. I'll try to post a video of them later...

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And, you exit through the gift shop and the food tent, where we always get a little silly with the pumpkins...

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gourdhorn

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cannibalpunkin

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Happy Halloween!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

BLAZE! (aka The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze), Part 2

Still with us? There are dinosaurs here!

dinos

And a field of celtic knotwork pumpkins.

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knot3

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Spooky eyes and cats..

eyes

cats

And a huge pumpkin cauldron tended by three witches...

macbeth

It wouldn't be 2012 without a Doomsday Clock...

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And there is an aquarium full of fish, both Hudson River natives and more exotic fare..

anglerfish

fishskelly

Good old movie monsters make an appearance:

drac

frankmonster

mummy

And yes, there is more still to come...

Monday, October 22, 2012

BLAZE! (aka The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze), Part 1

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Join us for a walk through Van Cortlandt Manor's annual Halloween spectacular: The Great Jack O'Lantern Blaze. Lots to see!

Enter under the pumpkin archway:

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Enjoy the festively lit manor house, featuring pumpkin portraits of the Van Cortlandts.

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vancortlandts

To get there, you have to stroll past the graveyard, with skeletons and zombies rising from the grave...

graveyard

And there is a spooky bonfire with ghostly celebrants...

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mikrobonfire

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ghostrider

skull2

greenwoman

skelly

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witchface

Mikro would tell you these skelly spiders are a little problematic, since they only have 6 legs... But they were cool and creepy.

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