A freeze watch was in effect late Halloween night in Charlottesville, leading experts to recommend protecting tender plants from the cold.
Parents took that advice to a human level, ensuring their tender little ghosts and goblins were bundled up from the cold that came blowing into Central Virginia Monday afternoon, dropping temperatures from Monday’s unseasonable 80 degrees to the 50s.
Children and guardians by the hundreds flooded the University of Virginia’s Lawn Tuesday afternoon for one of the school’s community highlights of the year, Trick-or-Treating on the Lawn.
President Jim Ryan got into the spirit too, dressing as one if his favorite television characters, Ted Lasso, as he and his team gave out goodies from Pavilion VI. There were witches, Barbies, bats, skeletons, and superheroes galore, gleefully collecting their spoils from student residents along the hallowed Lawn.
Even the night sky, overcast by a low-hanging canopy of white-gray clouds, seemed dressed for a haunting night.
