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cant tell ya how proud i am to be the owner of this baby

even the parking garages in savannah are a nice place to hang out

creepy and amazing bathroom at Jere’s antiques in savannah. side note: did not pee here

the azeleas in bonaventure last weekend looking incredible as usual

driving through north carolina last saturday night

This was on a storefront in Coimbra, Portugal

This old church got blown to pieces and people refer to it as "Hole in the wall" now. There is a pretty famous grave-robbing/buried alive story from this cemetery but I unfortunately didn't find the reported crypt that it happened in so whomp whomp whooomp.

White Marsh Cemetery in Talbot County, MD. These are done in a really old style, but most are from the 80's and later so kind of a let down. Still make a nice pic tho.

Close up of the Death Head and a weird embossed hourglass/masonic symbol stone. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN

#easton md

May not be exciting to most people BUT yesterday I found a death head tombstone. I have been looking for one of these for over a year, and thought for sure I would see one in Savannah. As is the funny irony of life, this very rare beauty was only 30 minutes from the house I grew up in, along Rt 50 in Easton, MD.

Deaths heads are traditionally a skull and crossbones atop the stone, but after the Great Awakening people started to entertain the idea of there being an afterlife, and skulls with wings started appearing- that's the traditional death head. This one here is a very weathered rendering of the deceased's face with wings, which is very very cool. I need to come back and do a rubbing to get the name so I can do a little more research on this lady.

A very "the alchemist" ending to this quest, right?

#death head #graveyard #tombstone #sculpture

yours truly at Maplewood

#cemetery #charlottesville

So even though I've been fortunate enough to travel the world and see some of the most beautiful cemeteries on earth, my favorite one is the first one I fell in love with- the little beauty- Maplewood Cemetery in Charlottesvile.

Maplewood was the first cemetery in Charlottesville. The city already existed of course, and people had just been burying their loved ones in their yards. Once the city was planned and the cemetery location was mapped out, no one wanted to be the first person buried at the new spot. So the city made all the people down Park St exhume all the bones out of their yards and relocate them to the new spot to make it look like it was taking off. There are some reeeeeally old bones in this graveyard.

It's also a neighborhood park where people play tuba and walk their dogs. There is one mausoleum that usually has a homeless person sleeping on it. There are overgrown plants and big soggy spots where you could twist your ankle. it is one of my favorite places on earth.

#Maplewood Cemetery #Charlottesville

here are four cement crypts sitting by the graveyard dumpster. two are spray painted silver and two are spray painted black. the more i think about it the more questions i have.

#Riverview Cemetery #Charlottesville va

Okay so this is actually a few short blocks from where I used to live, and I've tried to find it when I'm out running but always get too tired and give up. C'est la vie.

Anyway I found it and here are some pictures

#riverview cemetery #charlottesville va

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond VA

one of my favorite oddities at Hollywood

#mysterious mourning bench #hollywood cemetery

Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond

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