lurking buck

again, i just thought this a good picture

cemetery landscape with water tower

ship stone

The script of the stone is worn, but the top is a two masted sailing ship, and very attractive. I believe the boy was eighteen when he died in 1849. This is in Maple Grove in Vermilion (although a sign there spells it with 2 'l's).

squirrel visitor

open zinker

This is a white zinc grave marker. They were manufactured with various designs, and removable panels. As you see here. They are durable, if not disturbed. If this was new, it would pass as contemporary art. Monroe Street Cemetery Cleveland has had some neglect and vandalism over the years. Really, esthetically it is a very lovely graveyard, but the far end by the rail tracks was filled with small markers, an many have been attacked. Along the side fences, there are stretches of small, and densely marked plots. It is not uncommon, to have the graves of the poorer people in such spots.          

stoned under

In Parma Ohio, Workmen's Circle (Ashkenazic fraternal) has a cemetery, and parts of it have sections for separate Jewish organisations and congregations. The most separate, and smallest, is the Berger. At the time of the photo, this section was accessible though a ripped part of the chain link fence. 

Baby

1901 — 1904

Looking in graveyards at stones generations old, one notices more such stones. At a time when antibiotics, vaccines, and certain medical treatments were not available, infant and child death were far more common in the world. To-day, still when medical care is not available in the world those death rates are still high.

at rest

how this happen?

Brookmere is a smallish cemetery in an antebellum residential neighborhood of Cleveland Ohio. It is slightly more than three miles south by southwest of Public Square (exact down town). It is bordered by houses on small lots, and is on level ground on top of a quickly dropping valley of the Metropark that surrounds the Zoo. It is near a main road, but tucked away to be not seen. Along one fence are several yards filed with plastic children playground toys.

Indians had been here, and then Yankees from New York, and New England, and then a lot of Germans. People do not realise that German ancestry had been (perhaps still is) the most common one in the United States; but between the Kaiser and the Fuehrer, this has been quiet.

If you look carefully, you can see, that the main inscripted section of this monument has been inserted upside down. I have never rubbed an etching of a stone before, this one and one in Cleveland's Woodland Cemetery, i would like too. There is enough script beyond the Lebensdaten, that may be interesting, if it is decipherable. The dates that i could read were all XIXth century. 

I am not the first one to post a foto of this stone. The same stuff is interesting to most people who would be interested, and not just this. Any photographer that is interested in graveyard fotos, and walked this cemetery, would have taken at least one shot of this monument. Any urban fotographer strolling with camera in some other venue, would be attracted to certain "hey, look at this thing". On Cleveland's Public Square, there will be a foto of Tom Johnson, another of Moses Cleaveland, one of Old Stone Church, and probably some shot of the War for the Union monument. I take for this journal page, and a few others. Many of the subjects have been shot with better cameras, and posted on the internets by people before me. I have been discouraged to post some fotos, because i have seen the subjects already posted by others.

Pair of Hearts

When i was growing up, there were in a number of houses rooms decorated with religious pictures. Sometimes it was in the dining room, or the bedroom, or the front room. Some pictures were themed, or paired, and some were solitary. One pair that was common was the Sacred Heart of Jesus*, and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. There is a mausoleum in Lorain, in which, the pair is there in stained glass in that solitary room.





_____________________________________________
* In Cleveland there were neighboring Polish parishes, by those names. Lennon, the destroying bishop, closed that Sacred Heart, and another in Elyria, and another in Akron.

varmint hole

I took several pictures at several graveyards. Some i have presented with commentary. Some pictures instead of immediately posted, i kept on file. Did i want to post one to-day? Should i put any copy to it at all, the picture reveals itself. Is there any audience? Well, i am queuing up one post a day for the next several days, and then, i don't know if i go back to the well, or go on foto jaunts for new shots, or go on hiatus.

fallen

some live little