One of our most cherished family traditions is the yearly carving of the Halloween pumpkin with our daughter, which has essentially been conserved since our time in California. Over the years this activity has resulted in very different designs between scary and funny.
In October 2019, for some reason we chose a selection of viruses as subject. Featuring several types of virus such as a bacteriophage (the large one) but also something resembling a flu or coronavirus (top right) we innocently anticipated things to come.
Shocked by this surprising prophecy, in 2020 we chose the most innocent and harmless subject we could imagine: a flower with friendly bees on it.
One year later, in 2021, we carved a giant octopus, toying with a little boat. We are sure the mass development of squids on the French coast that year had nothing to do with it.
2022 featured a stressed Twitter bird at war.
In 2023, a well-known Continental Celtic Warrior finally meets a wild boar standing up to him.
In 2024, a family event of that year was remembered where one family member had to be saved by helicopter from the Dolomites after breaking an ankle during a hiking trip.
In 2025 we didn’t manage to be in the same place for Halloween (for the first time after many years…). We decided to carve two of them with interacting motives: one with a drone bat and the other one with the guy steering it (who by the way looks like Ampelmann, the East German traffic light symbol).
