Yup. Cell phone pic. Believe it or not, it is already over 100yrs old...
It's doing well... I have pics of a marble one in Reading PA. It's a maiden done by a famous French artist about 100 years ago. It's beautiful, I feel sorry for it; should be in a museum. Someone was really bereaved.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
I oopsidaisily posted cemetery pics before elsewhere, but I just found this thread. Needless to say, I'm stoked I've found it. Here are some from last year - a legally abandoned PNW graveyard. (Legally abandoned = no caretaker. The dude responsible here can't stay out of prison.) This place was very intense to visit; it's sad as hell that families can't afford to move their loved ones out.
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4. Crowned Pixie Cups!
The #1 rule about poking things with sticks is never use your finger.
Poor John. His resting place abandoned, crushed in and flooded.
His grave was one of many like that, unfortunately. I did see damselfly nymphs in the water (they are really neat), but I did not see any human remains. Though naturally, I looked.
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[last edit 2/4/2019 12:40 PM by Mr. Bitey - edited 1 times] Give abandonment a reason for its sacrificial reclamation to nature. Love it. Remember it. Take a picture. Share it. Leave the decay to nature.
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Re: Of Grave Concern <Reply # 151 on 2/13/2019 8:14 PM >
Posted by corvidcache I oopsidaisily posted cemetery pics before elsewhere, but I just found this thread. Needless to say, I'm stoked I've found it. Here are some from last year - a legally abandoned PNW graveyard. (Legally abandoned = no caretaker. The dude responsible here can't stay out of prison.) This place was very intense to visit; it's sad as hell that families can't afford to move their loved ones out.
4. Crowned Pixie Cups!
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Pretty shot Never saw fungi critters quite like that before.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
Pretty shot Never saw fungi critters quite like that before.
Thanks, aren't they neat? It's a lichen! This was the first time I noticed them. (January 2018 was when I went to that cemetery.) I say that because, living in the PNW, I had been around them before. I notice them in my own neighborhood now. They're everywhere out here and I hadn't even realized it.
The #1 rule about poking things with sticks is never use your finger.
These are from my trip to Transylvania, specifically this gravesite was in Bistrita and Saganta, near Ukraine. A great mix of old school Orthodox and cold war err..coldness!
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