Monday, May 28, 2007

Cemeteries on Memorial Day

Today TS and I took my new camera to the two Pioneer Cemeteries near our house and took pictures.

(I got a new camera this weekend - it's a Nikon d80. Originally I had planned on the smaller, newbier D40x, but after some research I decided on the D80. It's a little more camera than I need, but I can grow into it. I hope.)

Since it was Memorial Day weekend all the dead who had been soldiers had flags decorating their graves. Even in the old pioneer cemetery, where no one is buried anymore. It felt lonely there.

A few years ago some vandals went through and knocked down a bunch of tombstones - stole the lamb off the top of of one of the children's graves. That seems sad to me. The historical society is still repairing the damage. Every few years Eagle Scouts make the cemetery their project, so there are people who care for it.

I had actually walked down the hill and taken pictures there years ago, so I might have some good pictures of it, pre-vandalism.

It was interesting though, and hopefully I got some good pictures.

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