Halloween is right around the corner and the stores are loaded with bags of candy for trick-or-treaters.
I love my weekly photo challenges and I couldn’t believe that the planets (or pumpkins?) aligned for a photo challenge trifecta!
Nothing is more nostalgic than a bowl of candy for Halloween. I remember loving Tootsie Rolls and Tootsie Pops as a kid.
According to the Tootsie Roll Industries’ company history, Leo Hirschfeld began selling the chewy candies in his little shop in New York City in 1896.
We buy the huge bag and donate most of it to our church’s Harvest/Halloween Festival, then distribute some to the neighborhood trick-or-treaters.
The Photo Challenge
If you follow my blog, I rarely miss the opportunity to post in the WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s theme is Nostalgia.
Jennifer Nichole Wells has THEE best photo challenges, and she puts in a lot of work to organize and host these. This whole month is about all things Halloween and today’s prompt is Candy!
This is my first submission for the Macro Moments Challenge: week 13 hosted by the lovely Musin with Susan’s Blog The close-up of the candy was fun to shoot with my trusty Samsung Galaxy 5.
I created this graphic with one of my images in PicMonkey for sharing at link parties. If you are wondering how to do this, check out my eBook, Better Blogging with Photography available for 99 cents on Amazon.
Have you considered participating in photo challenges? The ones mentioned above are open to anyone!
Halloween candy! Yay! Love the photos, Terri!
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Thanks, PJ! I like tootsie rolls, but I buy candy I don’t like. Most of it is going to my church, the rest I’m hiding til Halloween, LOL!
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Hahaha! I know what you mean. I don’t buy Halloween candy because if it is around, I will eat it.
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Red Twizzlers for me, Butterfingers for my husband, please! We hardly have any trick or treaters in our neighborhood, so we eat most of our candy.
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Ah, both are good! Ever since 9/11, the trick-or-treaters have slowly diminished, and we live a block from a school!
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I remember the candy corn that was always around at this time.
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Oh yeah, that’s a classic!
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Hi Terri, Fun post! Which of the photos would you like me to consider as your entry to Macro Moments? Thank you for joining the challenge.
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Thank you! The featured image of the candy closeup. Looking forward to the challenges. When do you post the new challenges, on Wednesdays?
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Yes , Teri, on Wednesday. You may enter as many times as you’d like in the future, but one photo per entry.
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Hi Terri, I thinl you’ve changed your site this week. I went back to take a second look at your post and the candy pictures not longer show up, only icons.
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Yes, my site is causing me some issues right now. I’m moving back to WordPress dot com from self hosting. Once that gets taken care of, I can see about the image problems. Grrr. But thanks for that feedback. 🙂
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Glad to hear you’re moving back!
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Thank you. I didn’t know that I couldn’t fully participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge (my thumbnail wouldn’t show on the community round-up page). Looks like my blog has migrated, so now I have work to do 🙂
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Visiting from the Blogger’s Pit stop! I’m going to play with this idea this month!
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Thanks for stopping by! Have fun!
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Nice photos! It made me remember how I would trade my candy with my brother. Good thing he didn’t like Reese’s Peanut Butter cups.
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Aren’t those the best? Anything chocolate!
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Reblogged this on DREAM BIG DREAM OFTEN and commented:
I love candy too! Found this little gem on Second Wind Leisure Perspecitves!!
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Thanks, Danny!
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Hi, Terri – I am happy to have found your site (via Janis’ RetirementallyChallenged blog). I have just had a quick look, and I have already found several inspiring posts. You mentioned that you just switched back to WordPress.com from WordPress.org. I’d be very interested in knowing your reasons for this. I look forward to reading more of your posts.
Donna
http://www.retirementreflections.com
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Hi Donna, thanks for checking out my blog, glad to know it is working! Just visited your site and loved your post about being invited to dinner! I subscribed to your blog. I hope to be posting next week about why I switched back. My migration is still in the works. I really love the WordPress weekly photo challenges and hope to get a post up for Friday.
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Thanks, Terri – I look forward to those posts!
Donna
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And now I crave candies…
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Muahaha!
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Oh! Evil laughter!!! Hehehehe…
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Reblogged this on The Owl Lady.
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Thank you!
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Too many candy memories to put in this comment space except to say we were poor so my creative Dad drove us to what he called the “rich people’s houses” and boy, did we score!! Full size candy bars and sometimes even MONEY! (He did this when it came time to sell Girl Scout Cookies also!)
Now, my grandsons are old enough to actually be considering NOT GOING Trick or Treating!! They are only 11 and 13!! So sad.
But I made a great discovery. I went to our local candy store to find a little something special just for them, you know, so they wouldn’t feel derived if they decided they were too OLD to dress up and go out.
Let me just say Gummy Body Parts!! (eyeballs, brains, fat juicy gums with teeth, fingers, feet!)
And they are GOOD. (Yes, Gramma had to try them!)
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How funny, lol! Shopping at thrift stores in rich areas is also good!
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What a great idea. I have never thought of that although I will stop at a garage sale in a nice area!! Happy shopping!
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