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The oldest cemetery in Los Angeles and the site of many of the cemetery scenes in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer series.
Since the Japanese cremate the dead the plots are very small to contain the cremains. They are interesting to visit, but the art and architecture found in a Western cemetery are lacking.
The structure to the right is the bell tower.
Model: Angel
©2008, Will Foster
We decided randomly to go do a photo shoot in a cemetery and Angel was going to dress as Gothic as possible. She didn't really have any Gothic clothing of her own, so after much borrowing, this is what she got, which turned out great!
While at Rose Land Cemetery, I found a small area that is for pets. Royal Oak, Michigan. April 4th, 2013.
Vestre Kirkegård was opened in 1870 to accommodate an imposing need for adequate burial places for the growing population of Copenhagen. Assistens Cemetery, till then the main cemetery of the city, had long been unable to cope with the increasing number of burials. First a burial place for the poor, Vestre Kirkegaard became the principal burial place during the 1990s.
The Crossroads Project (Danish: Stjernevejsprojektet) is a garden complex with a pavilion at its centre, designed by Schønher Landskab. It was created in 2003 after Copenhagen Municipality arranged a competition for the regeneration of an area characterized by the abandoned Southern Chapel of the cemetery. The complex is intended to serve a dual purpose both relating to the locations function as a burial place and as an open space and meeting place in the city, for those seeking piece and silence.
The complex is made up of two intersecting axes with the former Southern Chappel in its centre. The chapel was partly demolished, leaving only the central part as an open pavilion-like domed structure. The building is partly over-grown by ivy. The surrounding garden spaces of the two axes, creating a Greek cross, are confined by tall yew hedges and has a grassy floor. Embedded in the lawns of the cross arms are narrow, rust colored paths, made of oxidized iron plates, flanked by rows by cherry trees. At the end of each cross arm is a 9 metres tall rust colored iron gate.
The design of the project is inspired by Bramante's [San Pietro in Montorio The Tempietto in Rome and the baroque gardens of Villa Gori in Siena. The latter is characterized by the garden being contained in the two axes of the garden, instead of the axes being the connecting feature of the surrounding gardens as is normally the case
Jewish Cemetery Bloomington
Isaac Bachenheimer (1838-1900);
Born in Fronhausen, Germany.
Bloomington, Illinois
USA
N40 27.435'
W89 00.326'
JCEAA ID: C040163
20 August 2004
Located on southeast corner of S. Morris Avenue and Greenwood Avenue.
This was taken for possible submission to the Digital Photography School assignment "Cemeteries." This is the cemetery that was featured in the original "Night of the Living Dead" movie. It is located in Evans City, PA. It was quite a gloomy day for this and I saw not a single person while I was there.
The cemetery is located on the former site of Bonaventure Plantation, originally owned by Colonel John Mullryne. On March 10, 1846, Commodore Josiah Tattnall III sold the 600-acre (2.4 km2) plantation and its private cemetery to Peter Wiltberger. The first burials took place in 1850, and three years later, Peter Wiltberger himself was entombed in a family vault.
Major William H. Wiltberger, the son of Peter, formed the Evergreen Cemetery Company on June 12, 1868. On July 7, 1907, the City of Savannah purchased the Evergreen Cemetery Company, making the cemetery public and changing the name to Bonaventure Cemetery.
In 1867 John Muir began his Thousand Mile Walk to Florida and the Gulf. In October he sojourned for six days and nights in the Bonaventure cemetery, sleeping upon graves overnight, this being the safest and cheapest accommodation that he could find while he waited for money to be expressed from home. He found the cemetery even then breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring and wrote a lengthy chapter upon it, "Camping in the Tombs."
"Part of the grounds was cultivated and planted with live-oak (Quercus virginiana), about a hundred years ago, by a wealthy gentleman who had his country residence here But much the greater part is undisturbed. Even those spots which are disordered by art, Nature is ever at work to reclaim, and to make them look as if the foot of man had never known them. Only a small plot of ground is occupied with graves and the old mansion is in ruins.
The most conspicuous glory of Bonaventure is its noble avenue of live-oaks. They are the most magnificent, planted trees I have ever seen, about fifty feet high and perhaps three or four feet in diameter, with broad spreading leafy heads. The main branches reach out horizontally until they come together over the driveway, embowering it throughout its entire length, while each branch is adorned like a garden with ferns, flowers, grasses, and dwarf palmettos.
But of all the plants of these curious tree-gardens the most striking and characteristic is the so-called Long Moss (Tillandsia usneoides). It drapes all the branches from top to bottom, hanging in long silvery-gray skeins, reaching a length of not less than eight or ten feet, and when slowly waving in the wind they produce a solemn funereal effect singularly impressive.
There are also thousands of smaller trees and clustered bushes, covered almost from sight in the glorious brightness of their own light. The place is half surrounded by the salt marshes and islands of the river, their reeds and sedges making a delightful fringe. Many bald eagles roost among the trees along the side of the marsh. Their screams are heard every morning, joined with the noise of crows and the songs of countless warblers, hidden deep in their dwellings of leafy bowers. Large flocks of butterflies, flies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. The whole place seems like a center of life. The dead do not reign there alone.
Bonaventure to me is one of the most impressive assemblages of animal and plant creatures I ever met. I was fresh from the Western prairies, the garden-like openings of Wisconsin, the beech and maple and oak woods of Indiana and Kentucky, the dark mysterious Savannah cypress forests; but never since I was allowed to walk the woods have I found so impressive a company of trees as the tillandsia-draped oaks of Bonaventure.
I gazed awe-stricken as one new-arrived from another world. Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored abodes of life and light."
- "Camping in the Tombs," from A Thousand Mile Walk
Greenwich Cemetery became an addition to Bonaventure in 1933.
Daughters of Charles & Esther Harris
Esther M., d. Aug. 18, 1845 aged 5 mos. 6 days
Cordelia a., d. Feb. 27, 1847 aged 5 mos. 9 days
"Sleep, sleep thou dear departed children,
Parents' tears will wet thy sods;
Earley flowers will deck thy grave
While angels bear thee home to god"
Cemetery with commonwealth graves, situated in the middle of Redhill Lane, Durham City, North East England, UK. . .
The scents of balsam and pine always bring me back to childhood memories of the Adirondacks. I had forgotten, until I got out of the car here, about creeping red thyme, which releases its fragrance when stepped on. Creeping red thyme (Thymus praecox subsp. arcticus) seems to have been widely planted in cemeteries in the Adirondacks, and it thrives here.
Plot 117: Edith Cannon (70) 1950
James Cannon
In Loving Memory
Of
EDITH VIOLETTA
CANNON
died 2nd Aug. 1950
Also her beloved husband
JAMES CANNON
died 4th April 1952
aged 72 years
R.I.P
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