Rasp-, blue-, and straw-berry pie

I made a pie of deliciousness, and attempted to photograph it (before baking) in its visual perfection, in our admittedly poorly-lit kitchen.

This post's theme word is minatory, "baleful: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments." The minatory zoom on the food photograph presaged overstuffed discomfort at dessert.

Christmas ornaments of nightmares

This is a bizarre mannequin is the eldrich, strange stuff of modern Lovecraftian nightmares.

I do not understand how a naked ornament-headed elongated alien -- in a festive red scarf -- can possibly help a department store sell more items. Is it meant to encourage my purchase of a giant ornament? or a giant collection of ornaments? or scarves, to help my head swell and my limbs lengthen somehow?

This post's theme word is fossorial, "adapted for digging" (like limbs or feet). The anomalous alien's head is hypothesized to be fossorial.