Red-Ringed Tupperware Party with (ineffective) Tin Foil Hats

Woolburr wrote in post #2372187
Not a real fan of cemetery shots....but they came out fairly well...a couple of the conversions are rather interesting. I like the second image in the second group of conversions.

I wasn't too sure about going at first either... but I love history, and there's so much there to be gleaned. By looking at the headstones and the various dates you can see wars come and go, when epidemics hit, the lives of some of the pioneers that came out West. It's creepy, but I find it fascinating at the same time.

I love cemetaries, too. I used to "haunt" them when I was a kid. And, yes, you can just about determine when there were epidemics and wars just by looking at the stones as a whole. We have some really old graves around here with fascinating stones.

I guess maybe it is the overall sadness of the place that gets to me.

Woolburr wrote in post #2372221
I guess maybe it is the overall sadness of the place that gets to me.

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I don't find them sad. Just peaceful.

It's weird, but when our son died, it was really the first time I went around and read other headstones...and saw we weren't the "only ones" who ever faced that. I mean, your mind knows it but your heart doesn't. Somehow that seemed a bit soothing to me...as in, this is how life is and people much older than I was, have coped for generation after generation...now I see cemetaries differently than I used to.

Well, hey. Enough of the uplifting photo subjects! Off to eat some chili and see if I can get this tule fog out of my bones!

Sorry to hear of your loss, Permie. I suppose I find them peaceful, as I consider death just another natural part of life itself.

liza wrote in post #2372267
Sorry to hear of your loss, Permie. I suppose I find them peaceful, as I consider death just another natural part of life itself.

I guess I do too...I wasn't trying to depress anyone...either, so sorry about that if I did. Just say why I think about them much differently than I used to.

Once several years ago we found a pioneer cemetery...just kind of lost in the shrub...stumbled upon it in fact. That's one I'd like to go back and photograph!

We have many, many old ones around here that are still maintained though they are no longer used. The meanings of the carvings on the older stones is very interesting. I had a list of their meanings at one time when I was into genealogy.

liza wrote in post #2372283
We have many, many old ones around here that are still maintained though they are no longer used. The meanings of the carvings on the older stones is very interesting. I had a list of their meanings at one time when I was into genealogy.

I just liked the way they used to chronicle a "passing". "Done to death by a hammer" or something like that...and who/what the person really was. It was very interesting. Perhaps because it's so far removed...in comparison to today.

liza wrote in post #2372283
We have many, many old ones around here that are still maintained though they are no longer used. The meanings of the carvings on the older stones is very interesting. I had a list of their meanings at one time when I was into genealogy.

I like the older ones, too. The ones with those big monuments and stuff. These new ones with the markers that are flush with the lawn so as to ease mowing, those depress me.

Woolburr wrote in post #2372181
...quick, simple and no need to have to perform acrobatics to accomplish the task. I think this thing is worth every penny.

sounds like a great machine. AND you get to save the acrobatics. cool

I do not find them sad. Nice ones are lovely and peaceful. There are many parts of the US that followed the trend at turn of century where the cemetaries were used as park land and people went for picnics and such. why some old ones are so well landscaped. SOme of the artowkr there is phenomenal too

So what's everyone up to today? I read that Liza is off, to get Wyatt's cast removed...I want to go to the coast for the weekend but it's raining so no photographs...so why go?

I think we'll do some clean up around here and put out Christmas decorations.

Grading and still trying to get warm from this morning at the office