森のカボチャ

On Saturday afternoon I went to visit some old friends and their four month old baby boy. With less than a week before Halloween, we decided to carve one of the pumpkins on their front porch into a jack-o-lantern. While I do not have artistic impulses often, I wanted to do something besides the traditional triangle-toothed face. My friend and his son share the same first name Forrest, so I decided to attempt carving the Japanese kanji for "forest": 森, or "mori". Below is the result...