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Ansel’s view (more or less)
Hernandez, New Mexico:if you’ve heard of it all, it’s likely to be from the title of Ansel Adams’s famous photograph “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.” He made that photo in early November 1941, and since then the trees have gotten taller and there are more buildings and (I assume) 78 years of more crosses in the cemetery.
But this is the place. This is nearly his view – he was further back and higher up, along the road. But from there, you can’t even see the church at all any more.
“This is sort of a Holy Grail deal for you, isn’t it?” said the Patient Spouse as I nodded, wordlessly.
Hernandez, New Mexico
photographed 9.1.2019
PS: Also, yes, Adams’s photo has its own Wikipedia page. So there’s that.
PPS: The church had a flat roof in 1941; a carved wooden sign at the front door noting a renovation in the 1960s leads us to believe the current gable roof was added then.
the future, in the rear view mirror
Death was right there, in my rear view mirror.
Or, at least, the Petersburg cemetery was in the mirror….
Petersburg, Texas
photographed 8.10.2019
A couple of things here
First of all, it may come in handy to know that you can apparently get a handful of cemetery flowers for a dollar.
Second, this should quiet, forever, those doubters who say that cats do not go to heaven. Obviously they do: why else would this cat have angel wings?
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
photographed 10.6.2018
Angel, grounded
And here’s a cemetery angel, helpfully illustrating “dust to dust” for anyone who happens by.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
photographed 10.6.2018
When the one thing implies the other
I know. I know that the name of the cemetery was “Graves.” But that sign was still hilarious – so hilarious, in fact, that it required the Patient Spouse to make a u-turn so I could get the shot. (And, then another u-turn to head us back in the right direction. It’s our usual path when we travel.)
Delaware, Arkansas
photographed 10.7.2018
One Day | One Image 