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Joe and Marilyn

Joe DiMaggio & Marilyn Monroe couples Halloween costume

Joe appears to have picked a new number since his was retired by the Yankees.

Thriller in the Ashland Halloween Parade

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Ashland Dance Works performs Michael Jackson's "Thriller"

For a number of years now, Ashland Dance Works has been “doing” Thriller during the annual Ashland Halloween Parade. This year, instead of doing it down Main Street, like they usually do, they performed on Pioneer Street which is a hill of sorts. This made for easier viewing, assuming you were at the bottom.

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SOU Volleyball come-from-behind victory (part 3 of 3)

Let's see now, where were we? Oh yeah, the deciding match goes to 15, but you have to win by 2 points. The Coyotes made it to 15 first, but the Raiders tied it up once again.

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16-16 score, games tied at 2 wins each

Angela Spieker saved this one with a diving effort

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Things couldn’t have become, or stayed, any closer. This was some serious, nail-biting action.

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Haley Fikso makes it 18-17 with this kill.

19-17 final score in 5th set

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Everyone goes wild with the SOU, upset victory

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Raiders vs. Coyotes (part 2 of 3)

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Angela Spieker sets up another kill for the SOU Raiders

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Megan Bartling with the kill. College of Idaho blockers can't make the block.

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SOU celebrates the kill

Another celebration after a Natalie Scheller kill

From about 5-5 on in the deciding match no team could get more than a point ahead.


12-12 score, games tied at 2 wins each


14-14 score, games tied at 2 wins each

SOU vs. College of Idaho volleyball (part 1 of 3)

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Sarah Holgen with the kill for the Raiders

SOU vs. College of Idaho Volleyball

Angela Spieker with the set for SOU

Angela Spieker with the backwards set for SOU

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Sarah Holgen prepares for the dig

Southern Oregon University volleyball team celebrate a point

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Megan Bartling with the kill for SOU

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Angela Spieker prepares to set another

SOU celebrates a win in set 3 to move to 1-2 at that point in the evening.

Natalie Scheller goes for the block. #3 on College of Idaho was relentless.

Tonight I watched one of the most exciting volleyball matches imaginable. The first set was close. SOU had the lead until late, but they ended up losing a close one. The second set was dominated by College of Idaho, and it looked like this would be a quick evening. The College of Idaho, BTW, was undefeated in league play going into tonight’s match up and had already defeated the Raiders at home earlier in the season. But then things got interesting…

The Lady Raiders won the third and fourth sets to force a deciding fifth set. I will tell you what the final result was in part 3. Suffice it to say, it was VERY close.

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Intuitive Compass – Zombie Gypsy Punk from Ashland

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Nora O'Dea on Resophonic Mandolin for Intuitive Compass

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Intuitive Compass playing some tunes after the Ashland Halloween Parade

Wyatt Yurth of Intuitive compass on zombie banjo

Wyatt Yurth's zombie on banjo for Intuitive Compass

I’m not normally a huge fan of bluegrass music (even though Intuitive Compass’s strand of bluegrass is more than a bit twisted), but after the Ashland Halloween Parade I enjoyed listening to Intuitive Compass, who set up in the middle of the normally busy street on the Ashland Plaza. Perhaps it was the beer, or the costumes, or Wyatt Yurth’s resemblance to Mikael Akerfeldt; all I know is I felt very good at the time.

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Zombie Daniel Wyatt playing the stand-up bass for Intuitive Compass

A sea of leaves on SOU campus

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I think this is where the season Fall got its name.

The best time to photograph leaves on the ground in autumn, it turns out, is on a Monday morning. Soon after I took this photo a machine moved across campus obliterating all traces of their existence. Of course leaves continued to fall, but they don’t last long during the working weekdays.

I went by Triangle Park in town hoping to take some pictures of the vast quantities of leaves there too. However, maintenance workers had scooped them all up earlier in the day. Next year I’ll have to beat them to the punch.

More Halloween costumes

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Guy in an outhouse costume

If you want tons of people looking and smiling at you on Halloween, try the ol’ tried-and-true “dude stuck in the outhouse” costume on for size.

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Alice in Wonderland's Queen of Hearts costume (or is she the Mad Hatter?)

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Couple of SOU volleyball players dressed as robots

Caryn and Renee do the robot down Ashland’s Main Street.

Mitt Romney Halloween costume (and more)

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Mitt Romney costume

At the Ashland Halloween Parade this guy was dressed up like a Mormon missionary (sort of) with a “Hello, my name is Mitt” sticker on his white shirt. OK, so he didn’t look much like Romney and costumes poking fun at someone’s religion are probably in poor taste, but it did make a lot of people laugh.

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Smoking ghouls (or are they zombies?) at the Ashland Halloween Parade

Here we find the other end of the costume spectrum from the squeaky clean Mormon missionary types in these smoking (although well-dressed) ghouls.

Quasimodo and esmeralda costumes

Quasimodo and Esmeralda costumes

Finally, for today anyway, we have the Hunchback of Notre Dame and (I think) Esmeralda.

Halloween costumes from the 2011 Ashland Halloween Parade

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Sheriff costume

Nice colors in Ashland, Oregon on this autumn day for the parade

Halloween costumes at annual Ashland parade