A Little Prayer
For the first time in two years, I have updated my blog’s look. I’ve been contemplating a change for a while but fear of the unknown kept me at bay. When you change themes in blogs, all of the photos have to be resized, hopefully by an automated process. And who knows what you’ll get? [...]
The Old, Rugged Tree
While visiting California recently, I wandered over to a cemetery near my aunt’s house. It was a cemetery unlike anything in my home state – large mausoleums with drawers for the remains of loved ones. And there were no above-ground tomb stones. The most striking feature was the landscape and trees, most of which were [...]
The Little Angel – Another View
I have posted this angel before but came across a series of photos I had taken in 2002. So I thought I’d posted a different point of view.
Grief
I have 53,319 photos in my primary digital photo library. These are photos I have taken between 2002 and the present. I don’t expect you to be impressed with this number – I’m not sure I am. I think many of these photos should be discarded. But, because I run out of things to post [...]
The Aged Angel
To me cemeteries are always photographically interesting and I think that this blog is evidence of that. This angel is one of the first things I photographed in Mt. Hope cemetery in Watertown, SD. As you can see, the angel is worn by time and covered in part by dark lichen. And she is engaged [...]
A Snowy Blanket
I drove through the cemetery this past January after a fresh blanket of snow. I have always been fascinated by the arrangement of the monuments in the military section of cemeteries. At the Mt. Hope Cemetery in Watertown, there are monuments that date back to the 19th century, and many wars are represented by the [...]
A Hand From the Grave
This is my third cemetery post in less than a month. I hadn’t planned on posting this particular photo because it really has no meaning outside of the context it was taken in. But people looking at my Croatia pictures have commented on it so I’ve decided to post it. To help provide you with [...]
Grave Art
Talk of Michael Jackson’s final resting place inspired this post. This is one of many notable musicians buried in Vienna’s Central Cemetery. To name a few: Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and (who could forget) Falco, the Vienna-born musician whose biggest hit was “Rock Me Amadeus,” are buried in this cemetery. Mozart, unfortunately, is buried elsewhere [...]
"New" Muslim Cemetery – Mostar, Bosnia-Hersegovina
This cemetery is in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina. After visiting the famous Stari Most, which was destroyed in late 1993 during the war in Yugoslavia, Deb and I wandered off the beaten path. We ended up in a cemetery. This one is the final resting place of young men who died in the Yugoslavian war in the [...]
Cemetery Arcade – Zagreb, Croatia
Our flight landed on time in Zagreb yesterday afternoon and after picking up our rental car and checking in to our hotel, Deb and I headed to a . . . . cemetery? But this is Mirogoj – one of the more famous European cemeteries. And if you are looking for a unique tourist experience [...]
The Old Jewish Cemetery – Prague
The Jewish cemetery in the Jewish Quarter of Prague is one of the most memorable experiences of my last visit to Prague. There is something powerfully symbolic, if not ironic, in the survival of this cemetery given the fate of the Jews in Eastern Europe. Some of the markers in this cemetery go back many [...]
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