Also check out my subsequente Adelaida Cemetery Cool Headstone Compendium a few weeks henceforth.
Even this nominally-Christian memorial structure possesses distinctly pagan elements... like an obelisk. |
A cross on an obelisk with two colors of highly polished granite. |
I like it and I don't like it. I like stone and I like black and red but here they seem a bit menacing. |
Mr. Abernathy is no longer here but something is... I sense it. |
That is Adelaida Road just south of the intersection with Chimney Rock Road. |
I like the creepy effect of the rusted wrought iron with the stones and pavers. |
This is the hilltop of my childhood fright... but I am no longer a child. |
Mary K. Burnett died at age 48 in 1878... which was probably about average in those days. |
A 10-year old child's grave who died in 1890. |
I fail to see why these graves are paved over if they are dug deep enough... unless they are not. |
This leaning manzanita caught my attention. |
This pioneer cemetery looks so, so, so very..... cemetery-ish... as if it was a set in a horror film... and yet it is very real. |
The dead lay under the dirt and in the dirt and are dirt all over this hilltop. |
This foundation reminded me of a Tolkien-ish ruin somewhere in Middle Earth... I half expected to see a Barrow Wight. |
None of these trees were alive when these people were planted here. |
This open gate seemed to bid me welcome to enter the inclosure. |
The Ramage Family plot in foreground. |
Entrance to the Ramage family plot. |
These concrete grave structures give rise to the question of are they to keep something out or in? |
The purpose of this structure is not immediately obvious to me. |
But as with other features of this cemetery brings to mind pagan funerary traditions elsewhere. |
Offerings atop the alter? |
Hilltop view upon the lower reaches of the cemetery... with my monster Tequila digging up the dead. |
I wonder what Wesley Burnett got in return or expected in return for his donation? |
Very nice photos! I wanta go with u next time. Also I know of a Cem near Susie that's cool to photog. We shpuld grab Susie n go there, mayb on the way to M de Oro someday!
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DeleteI forgot if I ever mentioned this to you, but I first discovered this page over a year ago, and was quite surprised to find that it was created by someone I know. Thank you for posting these photos! I love that cemetery. My mom and I went out there often when I was a kid, and sometimes we had picnics there. ^_^ I haven't been out there in several years, but I would love to go again someday soon.
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing that and for reading this blog post.
By what name would I know you as?
Kim
Sorry this reply is so late in coming. I didn't get a notification of your reply, and this website completely slipped my mind for a while. My name is Ina Goodling, Blake's "sister." Last year's Christmas party at Senior Sancho's was on my birthday (hence the cupcakes Krystal brought). XP
DeleteOn a side note, Mom and I took Blake to the cemetery with us once or twice when he was little (5-7 yrs old) for a picnic. He loved it. I remember him running around among the tombstones like it was a playground. :)