Death Among The Flowers.

Happy Halloween.

Yes, it's that spooky time of year again, so today I went for a walk along Headland Drive and Seabee Lane, two of the streets in Discovery Bay which decorate their homes for Halloween. I went in the day time and I am a little bit early, so maybe not everyone has done their decorating yet, but there were certainly plenty of diabolically delightful displays.

I started at the management office on Headland Drive. There was lots to see here. On Halloween in the early evening a long queue of children will form here. They will all be dressed up in Halloween costumes and they will all be ready for trick or treating. This started as an activity for local children, but it really caught on and now people will flock here from all over Hong Kong for Halloween. Public transport to Discovery Bay on Halloween is always chock-a-block. I'm so glad I don't need to travel home from work during it like I used to in the past. It was hell.

Trick or treating will start at 4.30pm on Halloween.

It's a scary environment.

But these skeletons look ready to party.

Pirates and Pumpkins.

Skeletons and pumpkins.

Past the management office, I wandered along a sunny street filled with beautiful brightly coloured flowers. There was something totally incongruous about seeing all the skeletons, witches, ghosts, severed body parts and jack-o-lanterns in amongst the flora, but then I guess it's to be expected on Halloween.

This really sums up the death and flowers theme.

Blood red hibiscus.

Ghastly goings-on.

Beautiful bouganvillia. How could anyone be scared surrounded by this?

Spooky scenes.

More colourful bouganvillia.

Scary fence.

Gorgeous flowers.

Peculiar pictures.

Fragrant flowers.

I think the Addams Family probably live in this house.

I googled quite a few collective nouns to help me in my descriptions of all the gruesome things on display.

There were covens of witches. I'm afraid I rather like the ones that have flown straight into walls.

Oops!!!

Pumpkin witch.

There were also several hauntings of ghosts. Most of these looked fairly friendly as far as I could see.

Twin ghosts.

Happy ghost.

Boo!

Then there were many rattles of skeletons. Again they were mainly happy and smiling.

Cheerful looking skeletons.

Skeletons and flowers.

Skeletons and pumpkins.

Death among the flowers.

Lurking skeleton.

I saw a few shudders of clowns. I think this is a good collective noun for clowns, as they certainly make me shudder.

Creepy clown. I think this is one of the scariest things I saw.

Unless it was these.

Or this. I don't like clowns very much.

In addition, there were many patches of pumpkins. I'd have to say these were my favourites. They are really rather cute.

Well maybe not this guy.

But these are cute.

And these.

These are too but, "Shush, don't tell them!"

Plus there were quite a few clutters of spiders.

Spiders.

Spiders.

And more spiders.

Disappointingly there weren't quite enough bats to make a colony.

Bat in a flower bush.

But there were certainly enough grave stones to make a memorial.

No one leave!

Looks like he did.

I must admit I found the killed by death grave stone quite amusing.

Crossing from one of the decorated streets to the other there were beautiful views out over the sea.

Scenic view.

Scenic view.

People don't just decorate their homes. They also decorate their golf carts.

This one is deserted.

And this one only has a skeleton crew.

After exploring these two streets, I walked to the beach and saw that it was being readied for dragon boat races. I checked later and found these are scheduled for Sunday.

Dragon boats at the beach.

Flowers and dragon boats.

A close up of dragon boats.

Tai Pak Beach.

When I arrived at the plaza, it was also looking pretty festive, so I took a few more photos here. Most of the decorations here were pumpkins.

Spooky chills in the plaza.

A witches' coven outside The Chippy.

Pumpkins in the plaza.

Pumpkins in the plaza.

Pumpkins in the plaza.

Pumpkins in the plaza.

The bauhinia trees in the plaza were looking amazing, too.

Bauhinia.

Bauhinia.

Even when I went to do my grocery shopping, I found the supermarket was getting ready for Halloween.

Pumpkins in the supermarket.

Overall I think the jack-o'-lanterns are the stars of this year's Halloween displays. What's your favourite?