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A Week of Halloween and Día de los Muertos 2015

·Walnut Creek, California·#bay area#family#holiday#halloween#costumes#dia-de-los-muertos
Two children in Halloween costumes, a doll and a sugar skull, stand outdoors among large green plants.

Halloween stretched into a whole week this year, ending in Día de los Muertos. The girls settled on their costumes early — one a cracked porcelain doll, hairline fractures drawn across her forehead, white lace dress, and roller skates, which made trick-or-treating an open question. The other went full sugar skull: white face, spiderweb on the forehead, paper flowers and a little bone pinned into a black veil, over a green embroidered Mexican dress with a pink tulle skirt.

The school did its costume parade on the blacktop — a Snow White, a Warriors cheerleader, a mermaid in sequins — and the teachers came as a bunch of grapes, a pineapple, and a strawberry, construction-paper stems taped to headbands.

The pumpkin got carved into a bat and set out on the porch among the purple lights. Halloween night ended at a party in Walnut Creek, the sugar skull passed from lap to lap, everyone in something — a witch hat, a black-and-silver vest, a baby wearing butterfly wings who did not look convinced.

Five children in costumes stand on dark pavement in front of a light-colored building outdoors.Smiling people in sunglasses wear fruit costumes: one purple with green leaves, one yellow pineapple, and one red strawberry.Two young girls smile next to a glowing carved pumpkin and Halloween decor with purple lights.Four children in Halloween costumes stand in a row in front of a wooden fence outdoors.A child with sugar skull face paint and an adult in a vest are sitting together indoors, looking at the camera.An adult with a scowling face and a child with colorful skull face paint sit together.Three smiling people, an adult woman in a witch hat, an adult man, and a child with sugar skull face paint.Two people, one holding a child in butterfly antennae, stand indoors with a skeleton decoration, one holding a glass.

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