Vehicles shown in a time-lapsed photo streak by one of more than 200 jack-o-lanterns positioned along Mooreland Drive in the Briarwood area of Bowling Green on Sunday night. Photo by Clinton Lewis

It could be called Jack-o-Lantern City, but residents who carved 250 twinkling pumpkins that line the median on Mooreland Drive each evening have dubbed their street Pumpkin Alley. There are happy pumpkins, sad pumpkins, cats, traditional and polka dot pumpkins. Were wanting to encourage the public to come and trick or treat and take a walking tour of our street, said Kari McCloud, who this year came up with the idea for Pumpkin Alley with other members of The Mooreland Drive Neighborhood Association. To discourage vandals, the pumpkins arent put outside and lit until 5:30 p.m. Residents bring the pumpkins inside around 8 p.m. The pumpkins will be displayed each night through Halloween. McCloud said Pumpkin Alley has brought an already close neighborhood association in a nice, quiet, family-oriented subdivision closer. She said members agreed. It would give us a community project and a time to celebrate something together, even though a lot of our children are past trick-or-treat age, McCloud said. McCloud and her husband, Dan, have three children: Brandon, a graduate student at the University of Kentucky, Kristina, a junior at Greenwood High School and Brooke, an 8th-grader at Bowling Green Junior High School. To get to Pumpkin Alley from Fairview Avenue in Bowling Green, take a right onto Ironwood Drive, a left onto Wrenwood Drive and another left onto Mooreland. If you cant get to Pumpkin Alley this year, dont worry. Were going to do it again next year and its just going to get better and better, McCloud said.