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The cemetery chair
I’ve been to this cemetery a few times, and always find something interesting like star trails just before moonrise, or a cemetery angel, or concrete cross.
But my favorite thing I’ve seen there is this chair, backed up against a stone tower and angled to get a view of a rocky gravesite.
Marathon, Texas
photographed 9.6.2009
White on white, 8
If you look closely, you may recognize the statue from this post. Obviously the columns are made from a more permanent stone than that dissolving angel.
Graceland Cemetery
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 4.16.2013
Cemetery Angel
This cast-iron angel watches over the entrance to the cemetery. She’s seen better days – her wings are gone as is her right arm and her left hand.
Someone, with an unsteady hand, has painted her lips, making her look even more forlorn.
St. Thomas the Apostle Cemetery
Ann Arbor, Michigan
photographed 4.20.2013
A serpent and some flowers
A detail of the door pull on the Schoenhofen mausoleum at Graceland Cemetery. The structure is “inspired” by Egyptian design: it’s a pyramid.
Wikipedia reports that it is one of the most-photographed mausoleums at Graceland. Had I known that when I was there, I wouldn't have taken any pictures: I am a little bit cranky* that way.
But, since I DID photograph it, and got this relatively creepy shot of a serpent and some flowers, it seemed only right to share it.
Schoenhofen tomb
Graceland Cemetery
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 4.16.2013
*Maybe more than a "little bit cranky," to be fair.
Patched arrow still points
My guess is that a lot of drivers (going fast, maybe, or driving at night, or texting) missed the left-to-right dogleg turn on Sharon Hollow Road, right there at the cemetery, and that it happened so often that a warning arrow was installed.
No one wanted to fill up the cemetery with bad drivers.
Sharon Hollow Cemetery
near Manchester, Michigan
photographed 4.19.2013
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