Wow. It looks like you've got some elaborate stones out that way. I keep running across those Civil War-era graveyards. The stones aren't as fancy, and many are eroded, broken, or toppled. Here are a few well-maintained ones, though.
Wow. It looks like you've got some elaborate stones out that way. I keep running across those Civil War-era graveyards. The stones aren't as fancy, and many are eroded, broken, or toppled. Here are a few well-maintained ones, though.
That is a beautiful photo. I love the way the light is on the golden stubble in the field back behind the cemetery.
I have never seen monuments anywhere like those in Bonaventure Cemetery. It is the cemetery where the bird girl monument from the book The Garden of Good and Evil was at. They've since moved her into a museum for fear of damage after she became so famous from the book and the movie.
I wish I had taken some photos of the cemeteries in Spain. Not that the tombstones were necessarily interesting, but they tended to put them in the middle of castle ruins. Apparently, after the discovery of firearms and canons, castles weren't much protection and they were abandoned. Locals used the site for their cemeteries, because why not?
I haven't heard of the bird girl, actually. It sounds like a good decision to move her to a museum, though, if she's well known.
The bird girl was on the cover of the book and became well known and the family wanted her protected and moved her.
I took pictures of one cemetery in Spain. Not in ground burials, but crypts.