Ring Around the Gravestone.
filed in Cemeteries! on Sep.27, 2010
Check out this gravestone/monument right smack in the middle of this cluster of trees. How neat is this? I’m stunned all these trees grew up without damaging the stone.
filed in Cemeteries! on Sep.27, 2010
Check out this gravestone/monument right smack in the middle of this cluster of trees. How neat is this? I’m stunned all these trees grew up without damaging the stone.
filed in Cemeteries! on Aug.31, 2010
epitaph (noun) 1. a commemorative inscription on a tombstone or monument 2. a speech or written passage composed in commemoration of a dead person 3. a brief literary piece commemorating a deceased person. [via Latin from Greek epitaphion, from epitaphios over a tomb, from epi- + taphos tomb] These beautiful epitaphs were written 173 – [...]
filed in Cemeteries! on Aug.12, 2010
Love left behind many many years ago. Click to enlarge these beautiful monuments~
filed in Cemeteries! on Aug.03, 2010
“Oh look! There’s the zoo! We should go the zoo!” “Ummmm….to expensive. We’re going to the cemetery. It doesn’t cost a penny and it’s just as fun!” We arrived at River Side Cemetery to explore. It’s very close to us yet I’ve never been there! A treasure trove inside….these are the beautiful crypts made with [...]
filed in Cemeteries! on Jul.29, 2010
Gravestones fascinate me. Here are some recently discovered stones from our latest cemetery excursion. Some are sad, some ironic, some funny, some odd. All wonderful~ (Riverside Cemetery, Cleveland, OH)
filed in Cemeteries! on Jun.19, 2010
Okay, so these are some pics I took at the cemetery the other day on our driver’s ed session. I love me a good cemetery, and I’ve never met a cemetery I didn’t like. Sound weird? Maybe…but so many emotions hit me while walking through the cemetery. There is so much history, so many stories. [...]
filed in Cemeteries! on Jun.02, 2009
Okay, so did you ever know there was such a thing called a ‘Waiting Mortuary’? It’s exactly as the name implies….when you died, they’d take your body to this place where you’d sit (or rather lay…sitting might be creepy)…anyhooo you’d lay there for several W E E K S before being buried…all to make ‘sure’ [...]