What a great Cuesta Park Halloween. First thanks to Kavita Aiyar for pulling together the 1-page Cuesta Connections that outlined suggestions for having a COVID safe trick or treating experience. Then thanks to Karin Stein for organizing a house decorating contest and Kim Merry for making the list of 29 participating families and a Halloween Map.

After collecting and counting the donations from the participating houses, Karin declared the Wilcox house at 784 Hans the winner of the "most money" prize with $212, and the Donahues at 1158 Nilda as the winner of the "coin weight" prize with $134.68. A total of $423.68 was raised for CSA to go along with Sarah Donahue's record-setting 10,000 pounds plus of food collected from the neighborhood.

As expected, attendance was way down compared to last year, but still a good turn out. At the Van Mell household we had 90 compared to 223 last year. Trick or Treaters tapered off after 8:00 pm, but we had a bit of an "after-party" when several adult neighbors gathered to critique the evening over a cup of wine. Included in the 8 person, 3 dog, crowd were Gabriele Hilberg and daughters Sophia and Mira from the far end of Gretel Lane. They didn't get much traffic there. Sophia described carving a landscape design that circled the whole pumpkin -- enjoy the beautifully creative result in the short video clip below. Mira got a Snow pumpkin and pureed it to make a pumpkin pie from scratch and roasted the seeds for snacks.

So enjoy the pictures from a great Cuesta Park Halloween.

If you'd like an original of one of the pictures (these are 800 x 600, while originals are several MB), email me with the caption and picture number.

Thanks, Rick Van Mell.

784 Hans Wilcox ...	Vote!	776 Hans ...	2nd floor ...	goodies table.
688 Hans Karen Price	1104-1110 Boranda	None Shall Pass	1046 Nilda Anders	pretty sporty
Hanging grim	1078 Nilda - Hammers waiting for the train ...	It delivers candy!	Sidewalk art	A table to be filled
Snoopy Rides Again	Flying fun	1155 Nilda ? Taylor/Schirle Trunk Shark!	1158 Nilda - Donahue ...	Setting the table ...
marking sidewalk ...	Great Pumpkin ...	Lit up!	now vote.	1163 Nilda ?
1174 Nilda Stein-Moragues	1182 Nilda - Yendahl	Family fun ...	Please vote!	1187 Nilda The Freemans ...
Great circus ...	and yard.	1203 Phyllis Sullivan/Teh/Wells	536 Leona ...	goblin righted ...
time to celebrate!	573 Leona ...	great creatures!	504 Drucilla - Hanna-Flores	Spooktacular.
660 Leona - Browns ...	and pumpkin party ...	night fright ...	goodies pole.	1670 Montalto - Fazio
Hi amy!	719 Leona - Millers	Hi Andy.	743 Leona Rogers-Yeh ...	Little Library
715 Lola	720 Lola	661 Lola - George & caregiver Matila	629 Lola - Diantha	628 Lola - Rhoads ...
Amy next to Dan's slide ...	dirt-bike graves.	621 Lola McDonald/Millet	1536 Begen ...	got the car too!
1555 Begen ? Mat & Chute	1579 Begen Ready for fun.	1611 Begen Thar be Dragons!	1616 Begen Lehners	1617 Begen - Tall ghost!
1622 Begen - Hunts	1623 Begen Marge & Mary & Cruiser	1629 Begen - Van Mell ...	This way please.	Rick & Sandy ...
early customers ...	in the heat of battle.	Masked after- party!	1635 Begen - resdy to serve	1641 Begen - Delicious
1576 Begen ...	well done ..	No Mask, No Candy!	In business!	1739 Begen - Merry
great lights ...	bean bag toss ...	scary TV.	Spooky Full Moon!