Halloween 2003 was our first year to create a small cemetery scene in our front yard.  Inspired by someone else's yard haunt the year before, our cemetery ended up with some home-made tombstones & crosses, effect lighting, fog machine and a few store-bought props all surrounded by a small decorative fence from a garden center (primarily to keep children out). 

Overall, the display was small, but quite effective and we received many compliments.  The most popular prop was our "fog spitting jack-o-lantern".  With the fog machine hardware hidden in the shadows, many people were surprised when fog erupted with a loud hiss from a normal looking jack-o-lantern.

Our humble cemetery. We put the purple "slime lights" on the cemetery fence so children could see where it was in the dark and not trip over it.

Yep, it rained again on Halloween. (At least it didn't snow.)

View from the porch as trick-or-treaters came to the door.

View from the street.

The "Fog Spitting Jack-o-lantern".

A "natural light" picture. Notice how the fog machine and supply hose are hidden in the shadows.

Our two boys were probably the scariest things in that cemetery. :)

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Our humble cemetery. We put the purple "slime lights" on the cemetery fence so children could see where it was in the dark and not trip over it.