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On Wednesday 8th June 2016 I visited the University Campus and while returning to the City centre by bus I noticed a large cemetery so I got off and visited what turned out to be Mount St. Lawrence’s Cemetery.
The cemetery looks very different to the major cemeteries here in Dublin because of the colour of the ground. There was little or no green to be seen. There was lots of rusted railings, very dry ground and brown or dead grass and plants. Maybe they have an aggressive weedkiller programme. I used a wide-angle Zeiss Batis 25mm Lens and I processed the images using the latest version of Lightroom [ver 2015.6] which was released yesterday [09/06/2016].
I would describe the place as being rather ugly but is does feature many interesting gravestones and crosses. Despite the obvious vandalism many of the graves and headstones were in good condition when compared to Mount Jerome in Dublin.
Mount St. Lawrence was opened in 1849, originally it formed part of the larger medieval parish of St. Lawrence in Limerick. It is estimated that over 70,000 individuals have been interred in the older section of Mount St. Lawrence between 1855 and 2009.
Mount St Lawrence graveyard, located in the South Liberties of Limerick, has been the primary place of burial in Limerick City for all strata of society since its opening. Its development was initiated as burial ground capacity elsewhere in the city was placed under pressure following cholera epidemics in the 1830’s and the Great Famine in the 1840’s.
Mount Saint Lawrence contains plots reserved for particular groups, including religious and diocesan graves and the Republican plot. One of the largest is the Good Shepherd Plot where 241 women who had passed through its reformatory for girls, industrial school and Magdalene asylum on Clare Street were buried. They were unmarked until a campaign resulted in the erection of markers listing by name the women interred there.
An extension to Mount St Lawrence was opened in 1960. The management of the cemetery was transferred from the Church to the Limerick City Council in 1979.
‘Poor Squares’ are located mainly in the far top left corner of the graveyard. While the prominent families are located along the central path leading to the church, many are close to the church. This area has had many problems with vandalism. Headstones, graves, plaques and the church itself have become vandalised and tampered with. The clustered graves and dishevelled architecture has made this a rather infamous landmark in the city.
There is a very large number of young adults and children interred in the cemetery. Burial records show that the average life expectancy was 38 years in the 19th century, with a high infant mortality rate. 42% of all deaths in 1870 in Limerick were children.
In 2014 Limerick City and County Council entered into an agreement with Limerick Civic Trust to carry out conservation works to the mortuary chapel and also to clean and repair old headstones marking many of the old graves.
Stopped off at a historical site called Britannia Mines on the way back to Vancouver from Whistler Mountain. The weather cooperated and the late afternoon sunshine brought out the redness in the various rusted machinery on the site. My only regret was I had my Panasonic FZ1000 with me instead of my Canon 5D MK II kit.
Miss D sets up to take a flash closeup of a rusted step iron, while inside the interesting storm drain called Trolley
A decaying railroad switch-stand lamp leaks light through its rusted body.
Shot for Our Daily Challenge : "Almost Gone".
Explore #295
Lost & forgotten. A couple of years ago this poor truck was completely covered in blackberry bushes. You could only see a few rust spots sticking out. Its been sitting in this farmer's field for a long time.
Rusting tank at the Tank Museum at Barnham, Suffolk. This looks like the area that the dead tanks are kept before being restored.
Don't know what kind of tank it is (See below, Black Chalk has identified it as a Conqueror Mk. 1). I like the way the turret is pointing out to the countryside, it looks like it was killed in situ.
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Explore #375 19Jul09.
the rusted, oxidizing emblem of an old chevy truck, sitting at it's final resting place at Haynes Auto Body Shop in Kokomo, Indiana. If you look closely, you can see the fleur de lis' selectively placed around the chevy bow tie
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Left side. Four strips of arches text wove, strong black tea was brushed on, rusty objects were arranged. I sprayed on a little more strong tea. Maybe got the paper too wet, things started getting streaky. I let it sit for a day.
I've used this rusty, collapsing fence for Fenced Fridays before, but there aren't hardly any fences that I run into during my normal daily travels, so I pretty much have to do what I can with the few that I have.
Process. For my sketch flash mob. Watercolor on paper.
The topic of the last 2 weeks was "Rust & patina".
The topic for next 2 weekt will be "Wilted flowers"
on leaves and particularly on sepals which seems interesting
calling Pyrola asarifolia but not entirely sure
leaves (mostly hidden by Linnaea borealis)
came across 2 orange rusts on Pyrola:
1 Chrysomyxa pyrolata
www.inaturalist.org/observations/12913688
and www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/11956860.2000.11682605 - "Sexual spores (i.e., basidiospores) of the spruce cone rust (Chrysomyxa pirolata; Uredinales) produced on leaves of a small perennial herb, the common pink wintergreen (Pyrola asarifolia; Pyrolaceae), must travel from the forest floor to the forest canopy, where they infect the female cones of white spruce (Picea glauca; Pinaceae). Asexual spores (i.e., urediniospores) must move among pyrola plants on the forest floor. Spore transmission is complicated by relatively calm wind conditions within the forest, and the short critical period during which the cones of white spruce can be infected."
2 Pucciniastrum pyrolae
www.naturbasen.dk/observation/2535008/pucciniastrum-pyrolae
my lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439...
my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections