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Post by Sepiana on May 23, 2022 5:16:35 GMT
Hi everyone, Would you like to participate in the Weekly Photo Challenge? Just take a photo that is your interpretation of the theme and post it in this thread. The rules are rather simple
- Your photo(s) should be your own, i.e., they should not have been taken by someone else.
- Photoshopping is allowed but should be kept to the basics only rather than a total transformation.
- Grab your camera, experiment, and, most of all, have fun. |
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Post by hmca on May 23, 2022 14:04:14 GMT
Not your typical memorial, but a memorial of sorts, that I created for my sister.  |
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Post by cats4jan on May 23, 2022 18:14:39 GMT
Helen - that is just lovely
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Post by Andy on May 24, 2022 1:25:45 GMT
A very recent trip to Gettysburg. No shortage of monuments there. Battery B 1st New Jersey Light Artillery (Clark's Battery)  |
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Post by tonyw on May 25, 2022 20:55:53 GMT
One of the more unusual monuments in the local cemetery - dates back to the 1880's and is made of mostly zinc (originally described as white bronze). It's hollow and was sold at the time as a cheaper alternative to granite or marble and in fact holds up remarkably well over time. The company that made them has long gone so the cemetery has a bit of a problem in trying to replace a panel on the far side that got damaged. The dark spots are rain - it just started as I took the photo.  Tony |
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Post by VickiD on May 25, 2022 21:29:16 GMT
Not your typical memorial, but a memorial of sorts, that I created for my sister. Helen, this is a lovely memorial to Esther...I especially love the photo of the two of you on the lower left! |
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Post by VickiD on May 25, 2022 21:32:19 GMT
A very recent trip to Gettysburg. No shortage of monuments there. Battery B 1st New Jersey Light Artillery (Clark's Battery) Andy, this is a really interesting monument...especially the wheels! I love the wooden fence behind it. |
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Post by VickiD on May 25, 2022 21:35:26 GMT
One of the more unusual monuments in the local cemetery - dates back to the 1880's and is made of mostly zinc (originally described as white bronze). It's hollow and was sold at the time as a cheaper alternative to granite or marble and in fact holds up remarkably well over time. The company that made them has long gone so the cemetery has a bit of a problem in trying to replace a panel on the far side that got damaged. The dark spots are rain - it just started as I took the photo. Tony Tony, Interesting monument. I love the white color of the zinc and the raindrops look like they belong and are part of the design. The detail is really great! |
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Post by pontiac1940 on May 26, 2022 3:36:05 GMT
My father passed almost three years ago at age 96. Because of scheduling limitations and travel restrictions we could not arrange to inter his ashes until this year. (Attendees came from Nova Scotia and Oregon.) Yesterday (May24, 2022), we placed his ashes in a small cremation plot in the Mayerthorpe Cemetery. My father was born in 1923 in a log cabin only about 8 km from his burial site ... somewhere about in the middle horizon of the first photo.   |
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Post by VickiD on May 26, 2022 5:17:34 GMT
Sad that you had to wait so long to inter his ashes. Being buried in the general vicinity of his birthplace is amazing! Imagine all he saw in his long life...and all he did! So sorry for your loss.
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Post by pontiac1940 on May 26, 2022 14:55:57 GMT
Thanks for your kind words Vicki. We actually held a formal memorial just a couple of months after he passed but the interment was complicated by covid. Being buried in the general vicinity of his birthplace is amazing! Yes it is and probably not all that common these days. You got me to thinking and this is quite interesting. My folks divorced when I was quite young and my mother returned to England a few years later and passed far too young. She too is buried only about 2 miles from the house in which where she was born! Clive |
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Post by whippet on May 26, 2022 18:52:02 GMT
Quite some coincidences, Clive.
And what a beautiful wreath.
Don't you scatter ashes in Canada?
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Post by cats4jan on May 26, 2022 19:09:33 GMT
The not very up-to-date statistics I could find for the USA:
In the US the cremation rate (as of 2020) was 56%
Of those, 40% scatter the ashes (2019)
By 2030, they predict a cremation rate of almost 74%
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Post by hmca on May 26, 2022 22:31:21 GMT
There is an historic old church next to a beautiful peony garden in a near-by town. This particular tombstone caught my eye when I noticed the man had been born in Scotland in the late 1600's.  |
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Post by VickiD on May 27, 2022 1:09:40 GMT
There is an historic old church next to a beautiful peony garden in a near-by town. This particular tombstone caught my eye when I noticed the man had been born in Scotland in the late 1600's. Wow, Helen...I love all the details on that tombstone! It's like a resume of his accomplishments. Great find! |
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