halloween roundup [fluffy]

It feels like 40 percent of what I've covered in the last two weeks have involved one or more of the following elements, usually in some adorable combination:

> pumpkins
> costumes
> children

Well within my comfort zone. I've tried very hard to cover things outside of that zone with my remaining 60 percent, but that's not to say I haven't appreciated the moments that crop up at these things. Here are some of my favorites of what I have shuffled back and forth from --

kids really pumped up about their historical figure presentations.

matty and i stumbled on the party at the ohio state beauty academy for a feature hunt.

hay and powdered doughnuts at fall fun harvest day.
[five eyes fixed]

hay rides at a church's beer-less octoberfest.

of course, trick or treating in my hood.

here comes the sun

i'm unsure of the clarity of this, but the paper actually ran this as a weather feature. the window at joey's submarines is huge, so i saw them fussing with these blinds from my car about half a block away.

rainbow trout

The Ohio State Fish Hatchery rolled into town with a truck full of rainbow trout and a mission to restock Lima Lake. Dan, the studly fish man, had to give the fish a hand in acclimating themselves to the water temperature. It was like 49 degrees this day and the water in the truck was much warmer. Vicente Fox and Lula Da Silva, my two goldfish my sophomore year of college, went to fish heaven because I failed to realize the importance of tempering their aquatic environments. Luckily, all the rainbow trout snapped out of their mini-comas.