I love the fall. I love the weather. I love the autumn colored leaves and the delightful crunch they make when they are stepped on. I love the food: pumpkin, squash, beets… All these beautiful colored foods make my mouth water, but most of all, I love the creativity it brings out in people.
Something about this time of year, maybe because of all the beautiful colors and the lovely weather, makes people light up with ideas. Take the Flaming Blackened Pumpkins by Nenkai, as an example. It is a story about a carved pumpkin blackened by fire. On any day this event could have easily been told and forgotten, but Nenkai creatively writes the events of the day in such a fun tone that it sounds a lot like a children’s story written for adults.
The story is even accompanied by fantastic close up pictures, like a picture book, of a quirky carved pumpkin. We see pictures of the pumpkin before the fire, the pumpkin on fire, the pumpkin on fire and smoke… and of course at the very end, the blackened pumpkin.
To select a favorite picture is difficult because every picture on this Squidoo page is wonderful and well placed. I love the picture of the pumpkin when it is first lit up. The rest of the picture is in black and white, but the fire is in color. I love the last picture on the page of the pumpkin covered in drops of water. They look like beads of sweat and the pumpkin looks shocked.
The placement of the matches and then the fire extinguisher products between the story and the pictures are a fun addition to the page too. It’s like tempting you to do something bad, but then keeping you safe in case it gets out of hand. I can’t definitely understand why this lens/page earned a purple star.
Personally I would love to see the use of a spookier font for the text and the list of blackened foods near the bottom seems a little out of place. So, I would remove it and replace it with an Amazon spotlight module of a recipe book of blackened food or maybe pumpkin foods. That’s it. No more detail or changes needed.
Visit: Flaming Blackened Pumpkins
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