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They all came from far and wide
And from the other side,
To bid their friend a heartfelt goodbye.
Go in peace and Godspeed.
Remember and do take heed,
If when you pass you do see
A door covered in black vine, poison oak, and weed
Hasten up your speed
And continue on past.
Keep walking until at last
You see an arch open and wide
With pretty flowers blooming up the side
Then enter it with joy, love, and pride,
Knowing full well that you have found the Heavenly side.
~ Marsha West
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Went to PA again today with my work friend April, we didn't end up finding any abandoned houses which sucked but we did find this really cool Halloween store and I bought this creepy mask, who's name is Pete. Spend all my money but it was worth it. So after I dropped April off I went home and on my way stopped by this graveyard and did a shoot there. I think I'm gonna do another one either tonight or tomorrow night.
I've been very lazy lately when it comes to shoots. I think it's the heat, makes me want to not do anything. I started my math class last week, doing good so far. Got a 97% on my quiz last week. :) Woo hoo! I think I'm gonna pass this time, I actually understand everything because my teacher is amazing and doesn't skip steps like my last teacher did. After I pass this class I'll graduate. yay! I was thinking of going to Mortuary school after I get my photo degree, just so I have a I guess a backup career until my photography takes off. haha. That way I can move out and live on my own and be able to afford things. :) It's only a two year major which isn't bad at all. I dunno tho. Maybe....
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Escultura funerària.
Cementiri de Montjuic, Barcelona.
Hidden by a wall along a busy main road lies on the edge of the center of Baden-Baden an old graveyard.
Just a few know him, hardly anyone visited ihn.
Most of the graves are very old, overgrown with moss, a few are more recent - from the early years of the 20th century.
Only at the war graves at the cemetery of honor from the 2nd World War are commemorated annually.
An oasis of calm.
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Hidden by a wall along a busy main road lies on the edge of the center of Baden-Baden an old graveyard.
Just a few know him, hardly anyone visited ihn.
Most of the graves are very old, overgrown with moss, a few are more recent - from the early years of the 20th century.
Only at the war graves at the cemetery of honor from the 2nd World War are commemorated annually.
An oasis of calm.
DEPARTED to the judgment,
A mighty afternoon;
Great clouds like ushers leaning,
Creation looking on.
The flesh surrendered, cancelled,
The bodiless begun;
Two worlds, like audiences, disperse
And leave the soul alone.
Emily Dickinson
Friedens UCC Church Cemetery near Slatington, PA. Grave site of a Civil War era soldier who died in 1870.
Mount Olivet Cemetery - Nashville, TN.
I was photographing the grave of Edwin Emerson Barnard who discovered numerous comets, planets, and Jupiter's fourth moon Almathea. I caught a glimpse of this monument carving in the next section so I went over to investigate. It is the grave of Willie Trauehnicht who was 13 years of age when he died in 1909. The monument states, "Drowned Trying To Save His Pony."
I am intrigued by the further inscription of "United In Life. United In Death." I'm wondering if he was buried with his pony or if perhaps this is meant in a more spiritual context?
"Future songs and flying dreams
Wait for you.
Love, it seems, makes flying dreams
So hearts can soar.
Heaven sent, these dreams were meant
To prove once more,
That love is the key" ~Kenny Loggins, "Flying Dreams"
Bergstrasse Cemetery, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
June 6, 2012 marks the 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion to liberate France from Nazi occupation. It’s also the day the late Richard Winters began making a name for himself in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne, when he parachuted into the town of Saint Mere Eglise. His exploits throughout the Second World War would eventually be chronicled by historian Stephen Ambrose in the book Band of Brothers and the HBO mini-series of the same name.
Winters has become so respected, his likeness is featured in a new monument that was dedicated today -- half a world away from his beloved home outside Hershey. The statue honors the leadership of all junior US military officers who stormed the beaches or jumped into France in 1944.
13-year-old Jordan Brown, of Lebanon, raised close to $100,000 for a project honoring the late Major Dick Winters in Normandy, France by selling olive green wristbands displaying the leader of the Band of Brothers' famous motto "Hang Tough." The money went toward a statue in the likeness of Winters, in rememberance of the leadership of all junior U.S. officers on D-Day in 1944.
On June 6, 2012, Jordan was among the speakers at the unveiling of the statue near Utah Beach, the 68th anniversary of the allied invasion.
Major Richard "Dick" D. Winters (January 21, 1918 – January 2, 2011) was a United States Army officer and decorated war veteran. He commanded Company "E", 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, during World War II.
Winters parachuted into Normandy in the early hours of D-Day, and fought across France, The Netherlands, Belgium, and eventually into Germany. Later in the war, Winters rose to command the 2nd Battalion. Following the end of hostilities Winters was discharged from the army and returned to civilian life, working in New Jersey.
In 1951, during the Korean War, Winters was recalled to the Army from the inactive list and briefly served as a regimental planning and training officer on staff at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Although issued orders for deployment, he was not sent to Korea. After his discharge he worked at a few different jobs before founding his own company and selling farming products.
Winters was featured in a number of books and was portrayed in the 2001 HBO mini-series Band of Brothers by Damian Lewis. He was a regular guest lecturer at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He retired in 1997. He was the last of the Easy Company commanders to die.
Mount Jerome is located in the heart of the suburb of Harold’s Cross which is centrally located on the south side of Dublin city, just beyond the grand canal. It is on the 16 and 9 bus routes. If you are getting a taxi make sure that they do not bring you to Mount Argus church which is nearby [I mention this because it has happened to some of my relatives attending family funerals]
Mount Jerome was the first privately owned cemetery in Ireland, when it first opened in 1836. It was also the first privately owned crematorium in Ireland in 2000. To date they have received more than 250,000 funerals for burial and 13,000 for cremation. They receive 250,000 visitors annually.
Due to the declining burial numbers in the 1970's, the condition of the Cemetery began to deteriorate as revenues fell. In 1984 it was put into voluntary liquidation. I actually lived beside Mount Jerome in 1983-85 and often saw young children and teenagers vandalising graves and monuments. By the late 1990's, it had fallen into a serious state of neglect with large swaths of the cemetery covered in overgrowth.
However with new owners in 1998 and the opening of a Crematorium in 2000, revenues have recovered and the Cemetery has undergone a complete reversal of fortune. The ongoing funds provided by the Crematorium have afforded the Cemetery the means to put in place a proper maintenance program to prevent it falling into decline again. Even since my last visit I can see a major improvement.
If you like old churchyards and cemeteries Mount Jerome is a place that should be on your ‘places to visit’ list. It is here here wealthy Victorians were buried and had expensive monuments built to advertise their importance even though they had moved on the the afterlife. They couldn't take their wealth with them. So they made sure they could still flaunt it for decades and centuries to come.
To some extent they must have been fooled by the craftsmen of the day into believing that the monuments had been built to last. Most of the Victorian structures have decayed to a greater or lesser extent and some are in a really bad condition.
It has some prominent persons interred, but the funerary architecture and statuary is the main attraction. Conservative family vaults, some serviced by sunken roads, compete with Egyptian-style tombs. And amongst dozens of angels clutching all sorts of paraphernalia you will also find a dog pining for its dead master. The symbolism is very different to that at Glasnevin - for example there are fewer celtic crosses there are many more broken columns [A broken column indicates a life cut short, a memorial to the death of someone who died young or in the prime of life, before reaching old age] and to a much greater degree the monuments proclaim the wonderful attributes of the deceased.
In my opinion the decay adds to the attractiveness of Mount Jerome.
Like Glasnevin, Mount Jerome is an operating graveyard and two of my grandparents are buried there.
Hidden by a wall along a busy main road lies on the edge of the center of Baden-Baden an old graveyard.
Just a few know him, hardly anyone visited ihn.
Most of the graves are very old, overgrown with moss, a few are more recent - from the early years of the 20th century.
Only at the war graves at the cemetery of honor from the 2nd World War are commemorated annually.
An oasis of calm.
NEW
Life-Size Rotting FOAM COFFIN PROP
Over 5-Feet Tall!!!
Realistic Gothic Halloween Party Decoration
This weathered-look moss-sprinkled faux coffin is made of Dense Compressed Foam with a Cardboard back for stability.
Appears to have been dug up to free a freshly decaying zombie, but he's nowhere to be seen!
Includes TWO (2) plastic rusty-finished jail prison chains and dungeon-style fake padlock, to make sure your skeletons or ghouls will not escape.
They may be dying to get out... Whatever you do, don't open that lid!
Halloween Haunt Castle Dungeon Prop Decoration
NEW Detailed Vampire, Corpse Sarcophagus.
REALISTIC HAUNTED, SCARY, SPOOKY & GROSS...
An impressive item for any scary, undead or halloween themed venue or event.
Measures just over 5 feet tall.
Approx. 61” tall x 30” wide x 14” deep. Aged wood appearance.
A fabulous way to thrill trick-or-treaters is by placing this frightening coffin on your porch or lawn and sprinkling it with a few cobwebs and a couple of spiders.
Looks great with a skeleton arm or foot sticking out of the holes!
You can leave the chain off and have a skeleton crawling out from the coffin or place an animated ghastly reaper hanging out of the side and watch as he moans and groans, turning his head as trick or treaters scatter!
Fresh Decor from a Creepy Haunted House!
95% Polyfoam and 5% Paperboard
*Some simple assembly required.
Simple disassembly for easy storage.
Coffin Includes:
1 piece backing – (heavyweight cardboard)
All other parts of dense polyfoam:
1 piece: side and bottom
1 piece: opposite side and top
1 piece front – folds in 3
Separate pieces for extra wood look on top and sides
Lock and 2 chains (plastic)
All parts assemble with Velcro.