A TREE DECORATED FOR HALLOWEEN? This sprightly sight isn't too unusual nowadays, with many fall fans choosing to adorn a sizable specimen, either indoors or outdoors, with strings of orange lights and ornaments that are gently, but unmistakably, frightful. Halloween trees have been around for a long time, in different forms — Ray Bradbury's "The Halloween Tree" remains a beloved literary classic — but finding an offbeat example that includes a whole lot of LEGO bricks, hundreds of thousands of them, in fact, is rare. So rare that you'll need to journey to LEGOLAND California in Carlsbad to admire the theme park's brand-new Halloween Tree , a 17-footer that has some spooky details. LEGOLAND California
BUT FIRST, THE BRICKS: There are nearly 681,000 bricks in the debuting sculpture —