Carrying on from yesterday's post, here's some of the work being done in the old cemetery.
It's all a bit of a mess at the moment, but after a century or more of neglect I'm sure most of us would look a little messy, too.
This bunch of headstones looks slightly startled to see daylight again and a little shy and unsure of being exposed.
I'm not sure why they're clearing it after all this time, but the parts they've completed certainly look a lot better. It did have a certain wild and overgrown charm before, though.
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Such a nice place to wander around, especially the old part,bit sad in the new as to many friends there that should not have been yet…
glad you paid a visit, Dad, Nana and Grandad were pleased I am sure…
I do not know why they suddenly decided to clear up but am very pleased, easier to keep the graves tidy when the grass is not left in clumps…
The old part was well spooky when I was a kid, especially in the dark. It will lose a lot of its character but at least it will look good.
I should post some pictures of Bonaventure Cemetery! xoxoxo
There are groups of volunteers in the area who search out and clean up old cemeteries.
Year ago, Carl and I visited an old cemetery near McConnelsville, Ohio that could only be accessed by an old farm lane. It was in a grove of trees overlooking the Muskingum River and surrounded by a cornfield. We wanted to see the tomb of an old steamboat captain, an cantankerous sort who said he wanted his tomb round on top so one of his former wives could not dance on his grave. He also wanted it high on a hill so it would be safe from any floods. The latter was not to be achieved, as the flood of 1913 reached a record height and covered his grave with silt. He seems he may have been a difficult sort and I have, figuratively, often danced on the round top of the tomb in support of said wife, whomever she may have been.
You surely should, Savannah.
xoxoxox
Speedway, he sounds like a wonderful character.
I prefer spooky overgrown cemeteries. Here in Cali cemeteries look like golf courses. Considering the water needed to keep them green, they should be combined.
In the rural Midwest where I grew up, there were (and still are) a lot of small, old cemeteries. Many are overgrown; some have limestone headstones speckled with moss. Roaming through these is so much more interesting than the "golf course" cemeteries.
The cemetery where several generations of my relatives are buried is accessible via a graveled road, and is surrounded by corn fields.
Yay! A beautiful thought, Vanda. At last, an idea that might make golf interesting.
Ms.M. that sounds an idyllic place. Luckily we still have lots of remote and overgrown cemeteries over here, which is a good thing. This one is a big town cemy, stretching over a mile and judging by the parts they've tidied it will still look artistically overgrown. I'll post some pics later.
Goodness it looks kind of creepy. I wish they'd clear it up... :)
Heehee. That end of the cemy was so overgrown and really creepy (in a good, kind of Addams Family way) for about a century and now they're clearing away the overgrowth and opening it up again to the light, much to the bewildered blinking of the people who'd been asleep there.
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