I'm getting away this weekend ~ going out to see something else. It’s been a while and sometimes you just have to take your eyes to places they’ve never been. Our eyes are funny that way. They get quite attached to falling on known things. So wish me luck in seeing something new that my camera can bring back and share, like these!
A good weekend to all and happy discovering!
When was the last time you took a train ride? Taking photos in motion can be fun. :-)
Train rides across the USA can be challenging ~ this is one really impressive piece of Real Estate, from one side to the other!
In fact there’s so much of it that after a while, when you look back, it’s all about being
somewhere in the middle!
I go out of respect and because I feel a certain comfort quietly walking through the lovingly placed stones. And if the cemetery is old enough I often learn a bit of the history that surrounds it.
All carved stones share their stories with us, Here two sisters were buried within a year and a half of each other, one not quite grown and the other so young life had hardly started. They died just after the First World War ~ did the Pandemic take them?
In another cemetery, score after score of stones ~ all young men and women. All never to grow old, lost in the span of so many wars.
Some graves are well remembered, others hardly kept. All are waiting ~ so still.
Back before the turn of the previous century there was a practice of planting roses near the stones. It was a good practice, done out of love and respect. Perhaps we should restore it once more. So that we never forget to remember.
