Breeder's End

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Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on May 26, 2011 at 12:44pm

Cemeteries at night can be both peaceful and disturbing.  Many people feel the residual energy of their occupants and many more let the cultural myths and legends simply run rampant.  I've always found tthem to be soothing somehow.  The sad ones are neglected or simply forgotten.  I've often discovered, mapped and documented them in a former professional life.  I never actually slept in one though.  Next door to them in a house or hotel, but to contemplate actually sleeping in one gives me visions of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. 

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on May 26, 2011 at 11:09am

A story. Nothing to do with photography but something to do with marble gardens. I have a friend who loves to road trip the U.S.. She often travels alone in a small camper. She searches for open cemeteries for parking her camper and sleeping. She says that sleeping in a cemetery is very safe since most people are too scared to walk in them at night! I have to agree with her but I do prefer the hotel room over sleeping in a cemetery at night ... at least for now :-)

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on May 26, 2011 at 10:12am

"Unusual" is what I'm always seaching for.  I like the designation "marble garden".  I've heard many different names for them.  Soul dump is one  and skull orchard is another. I like yours better.

Comment by Maryanne Mesple on May 25, 2011 at 10:12pm

I love marble gardens and I so agree with Lisa's word "unusual" for this one.

Comment by Robert P. Meyer Jr. on May 23, 2011 at 5:09pm

Yes it is.  It struck me as quite poignant when I first saw it too.  Most of the cemetery shots I've submitted of late come out of this cemetery over by the Veterans Hospital in Milwaukee.  Wonderful place!  The parental designations here are kind of creepily tender.

Comment by wiffledust on May 23, 2011 at 4:54pm

this is so unusual!!!