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Weekly Photo Challenge: Community

One of the things I like best about cemeteries is all that they teach about community.  You can learn what people valued:  Samuel is still a native of Ireland, even though he lived to be 74; Thomas was...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

The tree monument in Bendle Cemetery, Michigan This lovely monument is one of the primary reasons I fell in love with cemeteries.  It stands in the little farming community graveyard near the farm...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition

Broken bud This week’s photo challenge is to show two things side by side that comment on each other.  I like the juxtaposition of the broken rosebud on the gravestone beside the lovely pink rosebush...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Object

Broken headstone in Buena Vista Park, San Francisco Mary Jo Bole was in town for the summer, doing an artist-in-residency stint at the Headlands Center for the Arts. I was trying to show her a good...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes

Where is this lovely churchyard? All the epitaphs I can make out are in English. Photo by Blair Apperson. Twenty years ago this week, my friend Blair got word that the liver surgery he’d undergone...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned

I had wanted to go to Bodie ever since I first heard of the place.  It’s a Gold Rush ghost town that lingered into the modern era, a place of gambling halls and fancy girls, murders in the street and...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters

Broken headstone in the Alamo Cemetery, Danville, California This headstone caught my eye on Saturday as I toured the Alamo Cemetery. Last week was a rough one, as I dealt with the collapse of my cat...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring

Letty Lent’s gravestone at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, NY In the spring of 2002, about this time of year, I took one of the best vacations of my life.  My husband Mason and I flew into...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts

I know I just used this photo the other night on the Yokohama Cemetery of the Week, but I wanted to talk a little more about it. One of the goals of my trip to Japan was to visit the Foreigners’...

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Converge

Tour of Cloverdale Cemetery, led by Susan Bennett October was a whirlwind of writing about cemeteries and talking about cemeteries and touring cemeteries.  You can believe I was in heaven. Mountain...

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