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)

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.   [...]

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’ [...]

MC and I went driving today to practice for her drivers test.    So you all get to view some cemetery pics.  (If you are new here and unsure why I teach my kids to drive in a cemetery, please click here.)  Here’s some interesting pics from todays  near death experience   lesson.       The first pic makes me sad and [...]

So we went to practice driving at the cemetery. This is why I luuuuv cemeteries!   Do you think this person was, ummmm, perhaps…. a fashion designer? Other interesting stones…..   I found this one interesting because it’s the first time I’ve seen ‘canadian soldier’ on a monument in the US.  I think that’s very cool.   TO READ [...]

Yeah, so I like cemeteries.  I admit it.  “Hello, my name is Sheila, and I am a Taphophile” I wonder if this is where, when I walk through the cemetery gates everyone yells “Sheila!” like in Cheers.   Hmmmmm, I hope not, considering most people in the cemetery are pretty much dead.  The kids and I [...]

Looks like an ordinary shopping center but look closely, it’s built around an old cemetery!                 Built nearly two centuries ago, this little grave yard went almost unnoticed during the last 100 years in the city of Middleburg Hts., OH.   But in 1995, commercial development of the area [...]