Tiana and me wandered around Prospect Cemetery in 2015, and she took some cool photos. It's a huge graveyard, with stones in back dating from the early 1800's. I'll have to go back there next year and get some shots of those old, busted stones in the overgrown woods.
It was on Halloween too! Yikes!
(https://i.imgur.com/2YJgPJT.jpg) (https://lunapic.com)
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Those are strikingly beautiful, RC. The stone with the infant lying on it is especially poignant.
You're safe to go in graveyards on Halloween because that's the one day per year they let the ghosts leave the property.
Nice pics. We went to an isolated Jewish cemetary in a wood-ish area on Halloween a few years ago. It was hauntingly beautiful and creepy the same time. Some pics (not mine)
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^ Claws-where is that?
Quote from: ER on February 08, 2020, 10:15:21 AM
Those are strikingly beautiful, RC. The stone with the infant lying on it is especially poignant.
You're safe to go in graveyards on Halloween because that's the one day per year they let the ghosts leave the property.
I
love to walk around in old graveyards.
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 08, 2020, 01:10:26 PM
^ Claws-where is that?
Here in Germany. A few miles away from where I live. *edit* I just noticed the pics ain't showing?
Quote from: claws on February 08, 2020, 01:32:39 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 08, 2020, 01:10:26 PM
^ Claws-where is that?
Here in Germany. A few miles away from where I live. *edit* I just noticed the pics ain't showing?
I can see one!
Never mind, they are showing now.
Quote from: claws on February 08, 2020, 01:33:48 PM
Never mind, they are showing now.
No they ain't.
Back in the day, we'd go to different cemeteries to eat take out food or smoke weed. This was one of them:
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i can't see them either, but would like to! RC, she has a great sense of perspective! lovely pictures.
Quote from: chefzombie on February 09, 2020, 02:23:01 AM
i can't see them either, but would like to! RC, she has a great sense of perspective! lovely pictures.
She used her phone...
I love old cemeteries. The dead are great listeners. :wink:
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2020, 11:27:55 AM
I love old cemeteries. The dead are great listeners. :wink:
And they make excellent neighbors.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on February 09, 2020, 11:37:38 AM
Quote from: ER on February 09, 2020, 11:27:55 AM
I love old cemeteries. The dead are great listeners. :wink:
And they make excellent neighbors.
Came here to post this, they're quiet neighbors :bouncegiggle:
I told my mother in law her son and I were getting married here. Alas, that failed to kill her.
http://www.pinterest.com/cheetos1155/spring-grove-cemetery-cincinnati/ (http://www.pinterest.com/cheetos1155/spring-grove-cemetery-cincinnati/)
River View Cemetery in Portland has some nice spots in it.
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Kristi ikes to wander around old graveyards and since we have graveyards older than her country, we've wandered around a lot of them.
This one is in the old town in Edinburgh.
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Another one from Edinburgh.
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Potterheads should get this one. This cemetery is just around the corner from the cafe where J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter novel. Quite a few of the names of characters in her books come from here.
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From Elgin cathedral.
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This is from the British war cemetery at San Carlos. This particular grave was for a man whose manner of dying got himself a Victoria Cross. Most people who get one of them seem to die in the getting. Doesn't seem like a fair swap to me *shrugs*.
(https://i.imgur.com/DHmsdxF.jpg)
A rather large and elaborate one. Think these were in Edinburgh too.
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From Inverness. I keep thinking how inconvenient it must be to be buried halfway up a wall.
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Another one from the San Carlos.
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Port Stanley. This graveyard is a lot more tightly packed than it looks in these shots. Seriously, any small space where they can fit a grave in, they have one. Many are for sailors lost at sea in various accidents.
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I don't particularly remember this shot, other than that it is another Falklands one. Guessing some sort of war grave.
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I like the all the ornate ones with skulls.
I once asked about the skulls. Its because historically people were illiterate, so putting a skull and crossbones on it was an easy way of telling people this was a grave.
Personally, I prefer to think it means they were pirates. Way cooler explanation.
I think being it's in a graveyard, they would figure out it's a grave.
Yeah- I like the pirates idea too. :wink:
My cousin with the sheep farm, dirt track race bike & the electric race bike that's now in a museum has an old family cemetery belonging to the original owners of his property....
For several years, he didn't know that the local church was having special dawn service there every Easter Sunday, until he & his wife showed up for church one Easter Sunday, & one of his neighbors asked him why they didn't see them at the dawn service.
Right outside their window....
Quote from: RCMerchant on February 11, 2020, 10:33:13 AM
I think being it's in a graveyard, they would figure out it's a grave.
Yeah- I like the pirates idea too. :wink:
You find skulls crossbones and the like on Christian graves as a reminder to the living.
There's a cemetery in Mom's home town which I have never been in but always seem to dream about for some reason. One of my aunts is buried there but I've never been in there.
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The cemetery in Pretoria West has a number of interesting graves, among them the controversial Prime Monster Hendrik Verwoerd, the Boer War leader Paul Kruger and these two soldiers who were allegedly shot by firing squad for following orders.
(https://images.findagrave.com/photos250/photos/2006/246/15615763_115739513173.jpg)
From the grounds of Elgin cathedral.
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