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WPC: Heritage

23 Tuesday May 2017

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cemetery, family, Photo Challenge, photography, Weekly Photo Challenge


Three generations are buried in the cemetery near the former farmhouse. My great-great grandmother walked to the family woods nearby, dug up and replanted an evergreen tree at the family plot. That tree is gone now but the pallbearers had to step carefully when we buried my grandmother in 2014.  I can still picture it from the road, tall and lean, against the sky.

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Stone Angel

Out of curiousity last night, I searched the name of my great-great-great-grandparents and I found an interesting thread. Though some of the information differed (the date they left Ireland and one surname), there were some similarities (town in Ireland, 10 children – one dying at sea, and the date of their deaths (3 weeks apart)! I’m excited to dig deeper.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Blur

07 Tuesday Apr 2015

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cemetery, graveyard, Photo Challenge, photography, tombstones, Weekly Photo Challenge


Life can be a blur! That’s not why I chose these photos for this week’s challenge, Blur. I spent part of this past Friday morning wandering around the cemetery where generations of my family are buried. I remember walking around these same grounds with my grandmother, reading the names and dates and wondering about the lives behind them. Many of the oldest tombstones are made of limestone and sandstone, which were soft and easy to carve. Between the elements and the passage of time, many of these lives are slowly being reduced to a blur…

Blank Tombstone
Hill Tombstone
Mossy Tombstone 1
Mossy Tombstone 2

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