Halloween is just around the corner in the states. In my neighbourhood, people are gearing up or the big night of frights. A few houses have started to put up impressive displays! One house I recently visited had the pleasure of passing by informed me that the decorations they had started to put out wouldn’t be completed until the night itself, so I’ll definitely have to go back on the night.

In the meantime, below is a sample of images from that house, taken with an iPhone in passing. Look out for more Halloween coverage here in the upcoming days and week until the event! For more photography, check out www.angelacoulombe.com.

This figure is lying on the ground and at first glance is very “gripping”.

I believe that these light up in some sort of way, so I’ll have to pluck up my courage to go back at night to do some night photography!

“The Scream” as interpreted by the Halloween prop shop.

There’s somthing about this fellow I really like! He’s got a real cheeky “Pirates of the Carribean” sort of grin about him.

I think there are about 20 of these skeletons on the property. Can’t wait to see what they all do on Halloween!

Gothiic waterfeature complete with trailing ivy.

Okay, not really Halloween as such, but I couldn’t get over the size of these pumpkins at my neices house!

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Fall means quite a few things here in Maine:

1. Shorter days 2. Cooler temperatures 3. Amazing foliage 4. Trips to apple orchards for “pick your own” days out. Here are some images of a recent weekend trip to a local apple orchard. It seems this year the apple orchard was far busier than in years past. Although I thought we had hit it pretty close to its opening to the public, it was slim pickings; we really had to work to fill our baskets!

HDR image of apples on tree

Climbing the apple trees, like I said, it was hard work gathering apples

In the apple tree

Enjoying the rewards of labour

Having spotted a few more apples in anothr tree, one jumps into action.

Looks like that’s one for the cider press.

Eying up an ellusive apple

Gotcha!

Pumpkin charge

Pumpkins pumkins everywhere

Pumpkins of all shapes and colours

Pumpkins of all shapes and colours

These came home with us!

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I recently had the pleasure of being able to take some time off work to spend with my mother-in-law who had come from London, England, for a visit. One of her passions, as well as mine, is history, and in particular, historic houses. I was so pleased, whilst during my usual morning run, to have ran past a house I’ve always wanted to tour just as they were putting the “open” sign out. I stopped in my tracks and had a brief chat with the owner of the house and decided it would be the perfect way to spend the morning.

The house was built in 1743 by Lieutenant Robert Brooks of the British Army, who participated in the Pepperell Expedition of 1750. Later Deacon Amos Chase bought the house from Brooks widow. Amos Chase was the first deacon of the First Congregational Church in Saco, built the first bridge across the Saco River at Saco Island, and lived to be 100 years old.

The couple now living in the house have restored it to what it would have been like back in the 1700’s. It was a pleasure to tour the house, and believe it or not, this historic house is for sale. Hopefully the next owners will appreciate its history and maintain the house in its restored state.

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copy of photos of the house taken in the late 1800’s

Part of front of the house as it exists today.

Recreated English Sitting Garden

Front entry room with fireplace.

Close up of the mantle pice and ornaments over the fireplace in the front entry room.

Pantry way leading into kitchen

View of pantry way leading into kitchen.

View of pantry way leading into kitchen.

View of the kitchen looking out onto garden.

View of kitchen looking into dinning area.

Day sitting room off of kitchen.

Portraits of the present owners great grandparents hanging in the library/ study, off of day sitting room above.

Real like Goya copy hanging in library/ study.

One of the many bedrooms upstairs.

Dutch fireplace tiles adorn the fireplace in the room above.

One of the many stenciled rooms lovingly restored to teh colours and patterns that would have been used in the late 1700 - early 1800s.

Though this house has been lovely restored, there is still running water, heat and electricity throughout as seen by the electric outlet by the side of the bed.

Another mural painted on the walls of an upstairs bedroom by the present owner.

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