#cemetery rules

[harescemetery]

Yes, they look edible. No, they aren’t.

Cemetery Rules for the Living (temporary visitors only).

Thank you for your uncooperative cooperation.

Signed, Deadly Root Keeper of Soft Dirt, Damp Memories, and Too Many Full Moon Incidents

[mrkoppa]

18 October 2019 | Farmington Cemetery, La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Breaking the cemetery rules.

In an otherwise plastic free countryside of crops, grazing pastures, and woodlands, some insist on introducing plastic to the landscape because the way we remember our dearly departed is to decorate their graves with plastic flowers.

Sometimes I think about how many shipping containers of plastic flowers are transported over the ocean every year. We worry about greenhouse gas emissions. We worry about micro plastics in the ocean. We are in debt to China. Yet we cannot resist buying more plastic flowers.

ILLEGALIZE PLASTIC FLOWERS sticker

Stop and imagine the insanity of manufacturing plastic flowers and shipping them by the container full across the ocean from China to the Un

[mrkoppa]

26 September 2019 | St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Brownsville, Minnesota

First time down three miles of gravel road to find this stunning cemetery. Spent an hour and a half working and thinking about how these cemeteries sit quietly without visitors almost all the time.

[mrkoppa]

18 May 2019 | Calvary Cemetery, Rural Mount Horeb, Dane County, Wisconsin

Cemetery Pride.

[harescemetery]

This is why we can’t have nice graves.

[harescemetery]

Midnight is not a time. It is a status change.

Alive ≠ exempt.

[mrkoppa]

9 May 2022 | St. Peter’s Cemetery, Reedsburg, Wisconsin

[mrkoppa]

24 April 2019 | Czech’s National Cemetery, near Yuba, Wisconsin

Stone lettering season is back in full swing, and there are few settings more indescribably peaceful than Czech’s National Cemetery under blue skies on a midweek morning in late April.