Showing posts with label turnip carving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label turnip carving. Show all posts

October 13, 2011

It’s Halloween…Time to Carve Your Turnips!







I love Halloween -- not so much the candy and costumes (though I’m grateful for those tiny Snickers bars) as for the folklore and centuries-old practices from the British Isles that took place this time of year. When my daughter took up Irish dancing and got us involved in all things Celtic, I started digging deeper into the celebration of Samhain (pronounced “sow-ren), when the Celtic year ended and a new one began.