Happy Friday Folks! Posting right now from upstate NY somewhere a few miles east of Rhinebeck....gps was pronouncing it "Rinneybeck". Mom & I are up here visting family & getting Mom's old suburu some new tires and seatbelts via my cousin's husband:Tim...he's such a nice guy!
Since his garage was just a short ways up the road from thier house we decided to walk back, with Manny, Romeo & Trey figuring it would be some good exercise after riding 3+ hours in the car. On the walk back, by the third yard I realized something: it was the third house we walked by that was sporting a graveyard! seems like they randomly ALL over the place and really really old. So this will be yet another admission from yours truly: I LOVE graveyards. Some of the coolest I've seen are a few miles from here in Hyde Park NY. Years and years ago when I was a teenager, my cousin Brian and I went on a sort of adventure (that's going to be my story, and I'm sticking to it) and for a lack of anything to do , do pass some time we mosied around the Vanderbilt mansion & grounds and then we went across the street and checked out the graveyards. What cool stuff we found I swear!!! I've been hooked ever since. Old (and especially RICH) graveyards have some of the most ornate stones and mausoleums.
Well, I'm trying to do this on a laptop for the first time....while sitting on the back porch with 5 dogs running around. Yeah, it's a family quirk from my mother's side: we bring our dogs everywhere we go....
Would love to chat more but it's hard enough trying to see the screen.
Hope you all have a warm & sunny weekend!
3 comments:
Jester, I would so love to be on this trip with you; we are hooked on graveyards too, and go to as many as we can when we are out and about. You're so right about the old ones having truly over the top mausoleums and stone carvings and for us, the stained glass windows are always a must-see. Loved your pictures, hope we can see some more!
There's a little graveyard in my neighborhood. The developer had to build around it when the land was sold. It's a few streets away, which I prefer to my backyard!
Do you like to do gravestone rubbing? I know some people who do this for on the very old gravestones.
I am always amazed at the little grave yards you find out in the woods, forgotten by the family who left the land. I run into it when I ride, sometimes you see them encased in state parks.
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