A giant 275 foot jack-o-lantern smiles on the side of WaMu Center in downtown Seattle on Tuesday, Oct 30, 2007. To create the jack-o-lantern, building engineers studied the elevation of the building and drafted a plan to determine which blinds to close in order to create the image. The projection takes up 24 stories.
Pumpkin Pooch
An orange canine named Pumpkin Dog shows his Halloween spirit as a participant in the Truman State University homecoming parade Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007, in Kirksville, Mo.
Stacked For Sale
Halloween pumpkins, some of them carved, sit stacked for sale at a road side stand in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 29, 2007. The American holiday has become more popular recent years in the Eastern European country.
Open Wide!
A giant crocodile made of pumpkins is displayed on a farm in Hartheim-Feldkirch, southwestern Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007. The farmer promotes his products with the colorful, huge reptile.
Peek-A-Boo!
ito, a chimpanzee at the Oklahoma City Zoo, peers into a pumpkin looking for a treat during an animal enrichment program at the zoo, in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007.
Scary Prices
High gas prices are posted at a Union 76 gas station in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007. The Union 76 ball was changed into a giant Jack-O-Lantern for Halloween. Oil futures surged Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2007, after the government reported large and unexpected declines in crude and gasoline inventories.
On A Roll
A caravan of pumpkin rollers from Boise Christian School of Boise, Idaho, roll their finds back to the trailer at The Berry Ranch in Nampa, Idaho, Tuesday morning, Oct. 23, 2007.
Tough Choice
Connor Lightbody, 5, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., searches for a pumpkin at Eastern Market in Detroit, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007.
Water Works
Ken Smith of Sebring, Fla., carves his top prize-winning entry in the Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007, off Key Largo, Fla., in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. The contest, staged by the Amoray Dive Resort, judges divers on their artistic originality, as well as the degree of difficulty to carve the entry in the subsea environment.
Boo!
Cows look out of their barn as Eveline Jedro cuts pumpkins Oct. 18, 2007, at her farm in Boblitz, eastern Germany. Pumpkins commonly are eaten, cooked and served as vegetable or soup, the seeds can be roasted or are used for the production of oil. Traditionally, the fruits are used to carve lanterns for Halloween.
Pumpkin Paddle
Chip Peterson, from Falmouth, Canada, paddles his way to a fifth-place finish in the ninth annual pumpkin regatta on Lake Pesaquid in Windsor, Canada, on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007. The participants paddle large pumpkins that weigh around 550 pounds across a 500 meter course.
Okie Dokie
An Oklahoma State fan wearing a pumpkin mask celebrates a touchdown against Nebraska in the first half of their college football game in Lincoln, Neb., on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007.
Watch Gourd
A "hay man" made of hay, pumpkins and gourds watches over the pumpkin patch at Marini's Farm Stand in Ipswich, Mass., on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007.
Pumpkin Play
Taj, a 67-year-old female Asian elephant, tosses a pumpkin up and over her head at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. The park's seven elephants were treated to their own personal pumpkin patch to mark the first day of Fright Fest, a month-long Halloween celebration. The pachyderms squished and squashed the pumpkins to create bite-sized morsels.
Gourd-geous
Tina Kamin demonstrates on a pumpkin how to carve vegetables Oct. 11, 2007, in Leipzig, eastern Germany. Luebke and her "Xiang-Wang-Dream-Team" will show their skills and compete in the First Original Chinese Vegetable Carving Competition during the Leipzig Fair scheduled from Nov. 4 - 7, 2007.
Weighty Win
John Price, 14 months old, sits on the winning pumpkin of 1,524 pounds at the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Festival weigh-off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 8, 2007. Thad Starr from Pleasant Hill, Ore., who grew the giant gourd, wins $6 for each pound, which equates to $9,144.