W/NW: Cemeteries

[Moto-Uno]

^^^^ Robert , that's quite the find , the motorcyclist graveyard ! Any more info on what is now called "the back story " , being a motorcyclist it's got my curiosity up ? Peter

 

[rhl-oregon]

^^^^ Robert , that's quite the find , the motorcyclist graveyard ! Any more info on what is now called "the back story " , being a motorcyclist it's got my curiosity up ? Peter

Peter, I no longer live in Oregon, so asking around Noti is not a possibility for the time being. More than once I considered driving back there and asking around at the PO, convenience store, or tavern, but I didn’t.

I do recall that the cemetery is named the Sailor Cemetery, and is listed as a pioneer cemetery. I expected to find sailors, not Harley club memorials! There is a roadside sign directing where to turn in. More info on its location here, just off Highway 126 between Eugene and the coast.

https://roadsidethoughts.com/or/cemeteries/sailor-pioneer-noti-cemetery-xx-lane-profile.htm

I’ll look for my other digital images in my catalog.

 

[peterm1]

Its funny how many people are scared of cemeteries. I oddly perhaps kind of like them. They are full of family love, history and the story of ordinary people. It is perhaps why so many cultures carry out ancestor worship. Sad we have forgotten how to.

Generations by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

Weeping by Life in Shadows, on Flickr

 

[Moto-Uno]

^^^^ Thanks for getting back to me Robert , strangely coincidental I was through that area 2 years ago on my way to a Moto-Guzzi rally , maybe next time . Peter

 

[markus_h_photography]

MH1_3949a by m h, on Flickr

 

[Out to Lunch]

Out to Lunch, on Flickr. Armenian cemetery. Chisinau, Moldova.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

^^^^^Some lovely images on this page in terms of subject matter. Old cemeteries tend to display so much human caring and honest grief.
The personal jumble of beautiful statuary and writing on the headstones, makes old cemeteries seem like a crowd of different and real people who are still alive somehow.

There is an unfortunate trend, in this country at least, for some cemeteries to disallow any kind of above ground marker except flat ground level stones, simply so that groundskeepers can save time by hurriedly running large mowers over everything. Nothing says “We don’t care” quite as definitively as that.

 

[Bob Michaels]

OK, I got the memo that "cemetery" photos should not include people.

The town of St. Joseph became the largest community in Florida in its six year existence. The Florida state constitution, declaring Florida a state was signed there. In 1841 a ship carrying yellow fever docked there. Most of the residents quickly died of yellow fever while those few remaining fled. Several years later a massive hurricane destroyed most of the unoccupied buildings. This cemetery, known as the "yellow fever cemetery" is all that remains of the town of St. Joseph.

 

[Moto-Uno]

^That's quite the back story Bob ,thanks . Peter

 

[Larry Cloetta]

10 months shy of 22, and 6 weeks short of coming home.

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Kevin, it was a boy.

 

[ChipMcD]

Untitled by Chip McDaniel, on Flickr

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Nikon D800 + Zeiss 35mm f/2

 

[craygc]

Ricoh GR

 

[Erik van Straten]

For all those poor innocent victims of the corona virus and their families.

Erik.

 

[jmanivelle]

Au Père Lachaise by JM__, on Flickr

Ektachrome 64 - SWC

 

[jmanivelle]

Au Père Lachaise - Gilbert Bécaud by JM__, on Flickr

Fujicolor PN160NC - SWC

 

[jmanivelle]

Au Père Lachaise by JM__, on Flickr

Ektachrome 64 - SWC

 

[jmanivelle]

Gilbert Bécaud by JM__, on Flickr

Provia 100 - SWC

 

[Larry Cloetta]

Possibly the world’s most interesting cemetery. Thanks for posting. Getting a bit crowded though.