Thank you, Karla, for these beautiful photos of iron work and gates in the Mi. cemetery, just in time for Halloween/Samhain. These are right up my alley, I love cemetery's and I don't think they're morbid places. I love the history, the memorials and the architectural details you find in grave yards...and most of all the serenity. I think I like the black and white one best, but, it's hard to decide. I love them, thanks.
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I don't think they are morbid places either DD!
"I love the history, the memorials and the architectural details you find in grave yards...and most of all the serenity."
Perfectly said.
Love the photos too Karla, i've saved them.
Thats awesome!
I always thought they were places of beauty, peace & stunning serenity.
Then again, i come from a family of spiritual mediums, sensitives & healers...lol..
I live in Northern Cali ( have my enite life) But i moved to Maine in 97-98 and the majority of photos i ended up returning home with were of the cemetaries there!
The history & structures were amazing! Some mini cemetaries are everywhere you look! One was gated off right off the side of the new freeway where i worked at a market.
Another was up on a hill overlooking the house i was staying in with my ex & his family, built in the 1700s. (11 people had died in that home, you can imagine the activity!)
the dates went as far back as the 1600's and who could resist NOT taking pics of something that cool?
Glad i'm not alone :P
when i find them on my puter i'll send ya some pix of glendale cemetary here in akron, ohio, found back in the mid 1800s. beautiful monuments and masolesums [sic]. there's titanic survivors buried at glendale too.
i LOVE cemetaries. so peaceful and i agree DD, historic. and old tombstones were so much more artistic than most ones today. so much symbolism in them.
you are right, serenity. when i walk around glendale cemetary i can hear the horse's hooves clopping on the lanes from years ago. (yeah i'm weird, but i DO hear 'em!!).
some people are creeped out by cemetaries, but i always view it as i'm visiting people who might not have had a visitor in awhile.
Check out my city's (Guayaquil) cemetery. It's famous for it's white italian-style sculptures, it's a beautiful place.
You can find pictures of it here
Most of the photos there are from Guayaquil's cemetery (the white sculptures and rich mausoleums give it away), but I think there's from other places too.
This is a gross bit of trivia about those mausoleums...but I work at a plumbing company, in the office. Did you all know that those things are equiped with "drains" for fluids? It is somehow connected to the casket drain & out it goes to a septic. If you are buried in the ground, there is no need for this. I am being cremated, so I won't have a f'g drain hooked up to me for all eternity. Just a bit of cemetary trivia there for ya'...That just kinda made me sick when I learned that.
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