Comments on: My second explore http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/my-second-explore/ sarcasm served up daily Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:45:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: cricketB http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/my-second-explore/#comment-4178 cricketB Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:08:11 +0000 http://philangelus.wordpress.com/?p=2457#comment-4178 It would be very sad for a cemetery to get no visitors. It would be very sad for a cemetery to get no visitors.

]]> By: Ken Rolph http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/my-second-explore/#comment-4104 Ken Rolph Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:26:40 +0000 http://philangelus.wordpress.com/?p=2457#comment-4104 I found it very interesting to move to a new place as an adult. I didn't really begin to feel part of it until I started walking with the dogs. Then we would go into vacant paddocks and down laneways to interesting little parks. I began to understand my world the same way I understood the world I grew up in as a child. As an adult, normally I just drove around to the main places (shopping centre, library, post office, storage unit). This really gives a very superficial attachment to a location. You've to to get out there at a very slow pace, not looking through the windscreen as the landscape wizzes by. It wasn't until the kids grew up and left home that I really began to do this again. Something to look forward to. I found it very interesting to move to a new place as an adult. I didn’t really begin to feel part of it until I started walking with the dogs. Then we would go into vacant paddocks and down laneways to interesting little parks. I began to understand my world the same way I understood the world I grew up in as a child.

As an adult, normally I just drove around to the main places (shopping centre, library, post office, storage unit). This really gives a very superficial attachment to a location. You’ve to to get out there at a very slow pace, not looking through the windscreen as the landscape wizzes by.

It wasn’t until the kids grew up and left home that I really began to do this again. Something to look forward to.

]]> By: Promise http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/my-second-explore/#comment-4100 Promise Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:19:51 +0000 http://philangelus.wordpress.com/?p=2457#comment-4100 Ooooh. Old cemeteries are so beautiful and peaceful. They're a great place to do rubbings. Sometimes you can pick up things on a rubbing that you can't see with the naked eye on the older, more worn grave markers. Sounds like you've found a terrific place for bike riding! Ooooh. Old cemeteries are so beautiful and peaceful. They’re a great place to do rubbings. Sometimes you can pick up things on a rubbing that you can’t see with the naked eye on the older, more worn grave markers. Sounds like you’ve found a terrific place for bike riding!

]]> By: philangelus http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/my-second-explore/#comment-4099 philangelus Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:50:21 +0000 http://philangelus.wordpress.com/?p=2457#comment-4099 I'd much rather not photograph a real angel, actually. I think it'd be kind of creepy-feeling. We explored the old section of a cemetery in Kansas and found a family that had buried five babies, one after the next after the next. Most of them were under a week old when they died, and after the first, none of them had names. Just Baby Smith (or whatever the last name was.) It's as if the family had given up on the babies surviving until after they made it through the first week. We live in a very lucky time, really, when you think about it. I’d much rather not photograph a real angel, actually. I think it’d be kind of creepy-feeling.

We explored the old section of a cemetery in Kansas and found a family that had buried five babies, one after the next after the next. Most of them were under a week old when they died, and after the first, none of them had names. Just Baby Smith (or whatever the last name was.) It’s as if the family had given up on the babies surviving until after they made it through the first week.

We live in a very lucky time, really, when you think about it.

]]> By: Lane in PA http://philangelus.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/my-second-explore/#comment-4098 Lane in PA Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:45:33 +0000 http://philangelus.wordpress.com/?p=2457#comment-4098 Yes, you should take a camera. One of my favorite hobbies is to explore historic cemeteries and photograph the amazing sculptures, especially the angels. Here in Pennsylvania, a lot of the graves date back to the 1700's, and I read the names, take note of the ages of the deceased, and wonder what their lives were like. One family site greatly saddened me as there were 4 childrens' graves -- they had all died within a year. They were so young, and I could only assume that disease had taken them, probably an illness that is easily curable today. I don't believe there is anything wrong with visiting these cemeteries and giving those who lived many years before us another moment of life in this world through our thoughts, prayers and appreciation for the hardships they endured. And who knows, you may capture an image of a real angel. Yes, you should take a camera. One of my favorite hobbies is to explore historic cemeteries and photograph the amazing sculptures, especially the angels. Here in Pennsylvania, a lot of the graves date back to the 1700’s, and I read the names, take note of the ages of the deceased, and wonder what their lives were like. One family site greatly saddened me as there were 4 childrens’ graves — they had all died within a year. They were so young, and I could only assume that disease had taken them, probably an illness that is easily curable today.

I don’t believe there is anything wrong with visiting these cemeteries and giving those who lived many years before us another moment of life in this world through our thoughts, prayers and appreciation for the hardships they endured.

And who knows, you may capture an image of a real angel.

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