Quirky Photos of Small Town Halloween – The New York Times

Halloween in El Sobrante, Calif., is an irony-free zone.

It’s not that the town takes the day overly serious. It’s that the people who decorate their homes with skeletons, witches and dismembered torsos don’t take their decorations overly serious.

“No one’s trying to be witty here,” says Timothy Archibald, a longtime resident. “They’re just trying to say it.”