W/NW At the Cemetery

[antiquark]

Love cemeteries

What the...

 

[venchka]

Full size version

 

[dazedgonebye]

Balda Super Baldax

 

[Oscar Levant]

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]The night we went to Bannockburn by way of Brighton Pier.[/FONT]​

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]My friends, we will not go again or ape an ancient rage,[/FONT]​

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Or stretch the folly of our youth to be the shame of age,[/FONT]​

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]But walk with clearer eyes and ears this path that wandereth,[/FONT]​

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]And see undrugged in evening light the decent inn of death;[/FONT]​

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,[/FONT]​

[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.[/FONT]

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[Micky D]

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[nobbylon]

Lieden NL

 

[Micky D]

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[Merkin]

First two in Frankfort (KY) Cemetery, shot with D700, third shot at New Castle (KY) Cemetery, shot with D-Lux 3. Can be seen larger at www.flickr.com/photos/deac0nb1ues.

 

[Micky D]

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[principe azul]

Brompton Cemetery, Kensington, London

 

[dufffader]

Hi Jon,
I've always wondered how the Japanese cemeteries work. They're small, so I guess they keep only ashes there. And those wooden sticks, I was told every year they get one new stick during a certain festival or dates? And as with everything in Japan, they're very neat. I even stumbled onto one on a hike in the forest and didn't realise it was one!

 

[Oscar Levant]

 

[jonmanjiro]

Hi Jon,
I've always wondered how the Japanese cemeteries work. They're small, so I guess they keep only ashes there. And those wooden sticks, I was told every year they get one new stick during a certain festival or dates? And as with everything in Japan, they're very neat. I even stumbled onto one on a hike in the forest and didn't realise it was one!

Hi Brian,

I'm not exactly sure how Japanese cemeteries work myself, but cremation is the norm so only ashes are kept there. I think the festival/date you're referring to is obon. This year the obon holiday is 13th - 16th August. People traditionally visit family graves and clean them, replace the wooden sticks etc.

Mid-August is also the hottest time of the year here, and so the story goes, too hot for the spirits to stay in their graves.

More info here.

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

 

[imajypsee]

Colonial Park Cemetery in Savannah, GA



Riverside Cemetery in Menominee, MI (and others)



My brother, digging the grave for our mother.

 

[kshapero]

Behind a cometary in Little Havana, South Miami

 

[JeffGreene]

 

[lawrence]

 

[Rogrund]

From the abandoned St Lawrence Asylum Cemetery outside Lund, Sweden.

 

[lawrence]

From the abandoned St Lawrence Asylum Cemetery outside Lund, Sweden.

I wonder if you could let me know which lens you used for this?