Graveyard landscapes (moderate dial-up warning)

JeffR

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Thu Oct-15-09 06:14 PM
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Graveyard landscapes (moderate dial-up warning)

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Blue_In_AK

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Thu Oct-15-09 07:30 PM
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1. Nice, Jeff.

You know I have a "thing" for graveyards. :)

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JeffR

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Thu Oct-15-09 11:13 PM
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3. I'd love to see you turned loose in Savannah's DAR Cemetery, Blue.

It's as spooky as New Orleans graveyards, but it has a certain Savannah something that makes it unique. If you ever go there, for God's sake take your cameras. And maybe a crucifix.

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Blue_In_AK

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Thu Oct-15-09 11:59 PM
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5. I'd love that.

Edited on Fri Oct-16-09 12:00 AM by Blue_In_AK

Our cemeteries up here are kind of boring for the most part, bronze plaques set in the ground, but I did enjoy visiting the old cemetery in Valdez that washed away during the 1964 earthquake and tsunami. They have tried to restore it and place memorials, but some bodies washed away and some records have been lost.

Of course we have these:

Some Athabascan graves near Circle.

Spirit Houses at the Eklutna Russian Orthodox Church

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JeffR

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Fri Oct-16-09 12:06 AM
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6. Both of those are really cool.

Burial grounds would make a great contest theme. After all, they're everywhere people are, or were. I was in a pioneer cemetery in Western Ontario some years ago and the phrase "when even your headstone has forgotten your name" popped into my head. I thought it might work in a song or as the keynote phrase in the Great American Novel I promised myself I'd write before I turned 50. Alas!

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Blue_In_AK

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Fri Oct-16-09 12:11 AM
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7. That's a great phrase.

It's wabi-sabi. :)

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JeffR

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Fri Oct-16-09 12:24 AM
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8. If not Wavy Gravy.

:hippie:

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Celebration

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Thu Oct-15-09 10:08 PM
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2. Spooky

They put me in the mood for Halloween. And fall foliage! I love the light in the first one and then that spark coming through the tree trunk on the second to last one.

The open book one is really, really cool.

Overall

:thumbsup:

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JeffR

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Thu Oct-15-09 11:16 PM
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4. Thanks, Celebration! It's amazing how coy the fall colors are this year.

But there are now hints here and there, days after the traditional apex of the season.

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Adsos Letter

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Fri Oct-16-09 12:32 AM
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9. All nice! #'s 1 & 5 are especially emotive.

Cemeteries WOULD make a great contest theme!

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