It was a dark stormy night...

Pumpkins adorned literally every foot of this historic manor home on the Hudson River.
The lighting was amazing... it was blue and spooky!!

Seriously, it WAS a dark, stormy night when we visited the JackO-Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson, NY.

A bit about the Blaze:


The Jack-o-Lantern Blaze at Van Cortlandt Manor in Croton-on-Hudson features more than 4,000 individually hand-carved, illuminated pumpkins! Visitors meander through a woodsy, darkened, riverside landscape and discover a breathtaking, artistic display of abstract designs, ghosts, fish, mushrooms, clowns, animals, snakes, spider webs, and dinosaurs…all made of pumpkins!

Because of the rain, some of our photos were filled with rain drops, so we borrowed some from the Blaze Blog so that you could see this amazing event! We can't wait for next year!!

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The entrance to the welcome tent!! Pumpkins, pumpkins, everywhere!

The boys are ready to enter the Blaze! We put on our rain gear, bought a pumpkin flashlight to illuminate our path, and headed in!!

The entry tent had carved pumpkin chandeliers and spider web lights on the ceiling!

Walking up to the Manor...

Unbelievable!

The snake exhibit was sssssssssssss-oooooo amazing!

Each of the pumpkins in the foreground were different types of spiders, the web is made of pumpkins, and a large tarantula rests next to the web!!