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angledgeHappy Halloween everyone!
Along with rock walls, lots of trees, & winding roads, New England countrysides feature numerous tiny graveyards, usually family plots with less than twenty graves. They are often overgrown & dilapidated, with nary a legible inscription to be found. I find them sort of sad - partially because they're so poorly maintained, but also because there are so many tiny tombstones for babies. Life was hard on the frontier.
Life was also hard where the settlers had come from - places like the little town of Legerwood, Scotland.marasca took this photo of the Legerwood Kirk graveyard on our Scotland vacation in 2002.
Of course, I also took lots of photos of graveyards in Edinburgh. The city's cemeteries serve double duty as burial grounds & parks, providing restful sanctuaries for both the living & the dead. Occasionally they appear to be in need of some maintenance, too.
But they often feature amazing Celtic carvings, so beautiful ...
There are also memento mori, reminders of death, scattered throughout the cemeteries. Sometimes it's hard to get good photos of them, since they're hidden in little nooks & crannies, like skeletons of gargoyles.
Of course, you have to be careful when using the flash. Some of them get startled by it.
Have a good holiday, everyone!
Along with rock walls, lots of trees, & winding roads, New England countrysides feature numerous tiny graveyards, usually family plots with less than twenty graves. They are often overgrown & dilapidated, with nary a legible inscription to be found. I find them sort of sad - partially because they're so poorly maintained, but also because there are so many tiny tombstones for babies. Life was hard on the frontier.
Life was also hard where the settlers had come from - places like the little town of Legerwood, Scotland.
marasca took this photo of the Legerwood Kirk graveyard on our Scotland vacation in 2002.Of course, I also took lots of photos of graveyards in Edinburgh. The city's cemeteries serve double duty as burial grounds & parks, providing restful sanctuaries for both the living & the dead. Occasionally they appear to be in need of some maintenance, too.
But they often feature amazing Celtic carvings, so beautiful ...
There are also memento mori, reminders of death, scattered throughout the cemeteries. Sometimes it's hard to get good photos of them, since they're hidden in little nooks & crannies, like skeletons of gargoyles.
Of course, you have to be careful when using the flash. Some of them get startled by it.
Have a good holiday, everyone!
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Date: 2004-11-01 12:08 am (UTC)