Pumpkin Carvings

Although the Kearns family typically scoffs at holidays (and Halloween especially), this year we decided to carve ourselves some pumpkins. Keith's (my bro-in-law) parents are here for a few days, in addition to Steve-o, so we had quite the carving contest. Here are the pictures:










My pumpkin is not included in most of these group shots, because I spent far more time on my masterpiece than the rest of the family/in-laws. Very rarely will I brag about my visual artistic abilities, but I'm going to posit that this might be the greatest Jack-O-Lantern carved this year. Notice the curvature of the inside rind, such that you don't notice the thickness of the pumpkin as you look at the image. Notice how I thinned out the rind in certain places and scored some lines the entire way through the pumpkin and others merely on the surface to achieve a depth and range of colors foreign to most Jack-O-Lanterns. And most of all, notice the sheer amount of burnination. TROOOOGDOOOOOOR!!!!!