One of the things I've noticed which has surprised me for the second time I've experienced it is that old, retired people seem to really like halloween.  I have no idea what it is, but Paradise Village is really decorated for the holiday.  One of our neighbors has put outside their apartment a beautifully done old, miniature, haunted house.  Someone on the floor beneath ours has a full skeleton hanging on the wall outside their apartment.  There are more jack-o-lantern pumpkin heads hung on the walls throughout the village than I remember seeing anywhere else.  There will be a costume contest next week... and on and on it goes.  What's the reason?

I've also noticed that real beauty is found all over Paradise Village even in this season.  The flowers are as bright as ever.

Tonight was the third Wednesday of the month, so it is the night for the special film forum, and  a professor from SDSU comes onto our campus to show a classic film and to discuss how and why it was made.  Tonight's film was To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. Alfred Hitchcock directed the film, and about ten minutes into the story he appears briefly as a man on a bus.  Next month the classic film will be Sunset Boulevard.