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PHOTOS: Halloween Ghouls and Political Scrawlings This Week in the 925

As a working photojournalist, I’m out in the field daily shooting photos for the Bay Area Telegraph and many other outlets.

Here are some shots from the 925 over the last week, October 25-ish through today. All photos are credit Thomas Smith/Bay Area Telegraph.

Fall is here, and so is Fall foliage! Don’t let East Coasters tell you we don’t have seasons here in the Bay Area.

With the Fall, rains are back, too. This week, I photographed a sandbag filling station for Lafayette residents. You can get 20 sandbags for free if you live in the city.

Of course, this week was Halloween. Local stores went all out with pumpkins outside, and decorations were up around the 925.

I was also out shooting another trend: locals using chalk drawings on public spaces like trails and parking lots to share political opinions.

I’ve been seeing these all over the 925, along with more formal yard signs.

Finally, it was Bulk Trash Day for many people in the 925. I happened upon this strange find–a discarded giant canvas of an aloe plant beside the road.

Thomas Smith

Thomas Smith is a food and travel photographer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His photographic work routinely appears in publications including Food and Wine, Conde Nast Traveler, and the New York Times and his writing appears in IEEE Spectrum, SFGate, the Bold Italic and more. Smith holds a degree in Cognitive Science (Neuroscience) and Anthropology from the Johns Hopkins University.

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