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Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning
The tree monument in Bendle Cemetery, Michigan This lovely monument is one of the primary reasons I fell in love with cemeteries. It stands in the little farming community graveyard near the farm...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Window
Neptune Society Columbarium, San Francisco, California The Neptune Society’s lovely columbarium in San Francisco features a stained glass window in every room off its main floor rotunda. Every room,...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Juxtaposition
Broken bud This week’s photo challenge is to show two things side by side that comment on each other. I like the juxtaposition of the broken rosebud on the gravestone beside the lovely pink rosebush...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Object
Broken headstone in Buena Vista Park, San Francisco Mary Jo Bole was in town for the summer, doing an artist-in-residency stint at the Headlands Center for the Arts. I was trying to show her a good...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Threes
Where is this lovely churchyard? All the epitaphs I can make out are in English. Photo by Blair Apperson. Twenty years ago this week, my friend Blair got word that the liver surgery he’d undergone...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Abandoned
I had wanted to go to Bodie ever since I first heard of the place. It’s a Gold Rush ghost town that lingered into the modern era, a place of gambling halls and fancy girls, murders in the street and...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top
The oculus in the dome of the San Francisco Columbarium I went to a funeral last week in one of the most beautiful places in San Francisco. I’ve written about the columbarium before — I’ve visited it...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters
Broken headstone in the Alamo Cemetery, Danville, California This headstone caught my eye on Saturday as I toured the Alamo Cemetery. Last week was a rough one, as I dealt with the collapse of my cat...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Spring
Letty Lent’s gravestone at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown, NY In the spring of 2002, about this time of year, I took one of the best vacations of my life. My husband Mason and I flew into...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Contrasts
I know I just used this photo the other night on the Yokohama Cemetery of the Week, but I wanted to talk a little more about it. One of the goals of my trip to Japan was to visit the Foreigners’...
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