Autumn cemetery pics
Oct. 18th, 2008 04:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
la_belle_laideIt is a beautiful fall day today, so I went out parading and looking for awesome cemeteries. I remembered seeing one that looked really promising once while on a detour back from The Bad Place Where I No Longer Have To Be. I couldn't remember which through-road it was on, so I went all over the north road and south road, weaving through the through-roads. (And there are tons of them.)
About the north fork of Long Island: It's basically three different things: Farms, vinyards and cemeteries. All different kinds of farms, like potato, berry, corn, pumpkin etc. Vinyards far and effing wide. Out here, it's known as "Wine Country." There's even a sign welcoming you to "Wine Country." O_o So, it's a beautiful drive, and all the trees are red, yellow, orange and incredible gold. But you know me! I went looking for the cemeteries.
About me: I don't know how many people know this about me, but I am obsessed with statues. I can't even begin to describe to you how drawn to them I am. Big ones, little ones, and all different kinds. I like the old stone ones best, but I like them all. They have expressions that I think many people miss. They are either very eerie, or very moving. I almost expect them to spring to life, or to slowly form a different expression from the one already cast in stone or resin.
I went to two cemeteries today; one an old one, and one relatively new, from around 1900. That's the one that had really awesome statues. So, here are some photographs that I got today.
These were from the first cemetery, the old one. A sunny grave, a mossy grave, a very old grave, pretty colors, a sad grave, and a broken grave.
Although actually, all graves are sad, aren't they?
Does anyone know anything about angels? There was a statue of an angel and it was the most fantastic one I've ever seen and I wondered which one he was supposed to be. He carriea a staff with a flower on it in his left hand, and another flower in his right hand which he seems to be dropping.
If he had a name, it was rubbed away. Does anyone know which angel that one is supposed to be?
This one I called the Supercilious Madonna.
Because she looks so disdainful, right?
The naughty, creepy angel:
She looked so inoccuous--as statues often do--until you get real close.
Mary demands to know the deal with all these goddamn flowers!
Some of the Madonna ones, when she's got her hands out like that, look so put-upon sometimes.
Baby angel reading to a bird in the sun.
This statue made me sad.
Because it's so worn away, not an angle left on it. Doesn't it look soft?
This was so cool: a rotted statue with an angel over it.
You could see it used to have a painted face. It's so eerie how it fell over, and the angel one is standing over it now.
Dead flowers and random vegetables by graves.
Weird looking, right?
And this is me: Miss Autumn Cemetery Weirdo '08.
^_^
ETA: My Mom told me that the statue with the lily might be a saint, so I googled that. It could be St. Anthony, who is often portrayed with a lily. But more likely it is Archangel Gabriel, whose symbol is the lily. I'm so glad because even though I'm nowhere near being Christian, Gabriel is still my favorite Christian myth (probably because Christopher Walken played him,) and the whole time I was taking those photos, I was hoping it was a statue of Gabriel.
About the north fork of Long Island: It's basically three different things: Farms, vinyards and cemeteries. All different kinds of farms, like potato, berry, corn, pumpkin etc. Vinyards far and effing wide. Out here, it's known as "Wine Country." There's even a sign welcoming you to "Wine Country." O_o So, it's a beautiful drive, and all the trees are red, yellow, orange and incredible gold. But you know me! I went looking for the cemeteries.
About me: I don't know how many people know this about me, but I am obsessed with statues. I can't even begin to describe to you how drawn to them I am. Big ones, little ones, and all different kinds. I like the old stone ones best, but I like them all. They have expressions that I think many people miss. They are either very eerie, or very moving. I almost expect them to spring to life, or to slowly form a different expression from the one already cast in stone or resin.
I went to two cemeteries today; one an old one, and one relatively new, from around 1900. That's the one that had really awesome statues. So, here are some photographs that I got today.
These were from the first cemetery, the old one. A sunny grave, a mossy grave, a very old grave, pretty colors, a sad grave, and a broken grave.
Although actually, all graves are sad, aren't they?
Does anyone know anything about angels? There was a statue of an angel and it was the most fantastic one I've ever seen and I wondered which one he was supposed to be. He carriea a staff with a flower on it in his left hand, and another flower in his right hand which he seems to be dropping.
If he had a name, it was rubbed away. Does anyone know which angel that one is supposed to be?
This one I called the Supercilious Madonna.
Because she looks so disdainful, right?
The naughty, creepy angel:
She looked so inoccuous--as statues often do--until you get real close.
Mary demands to know the deal with all these goddamn flowers!
Some of the Madonna ones, when she's got her hands out like that, look so put-upon sometimes.
Baby angel reading to a bird in the sun.
This statue made me sad.
Because it's so worn away, not an angle left on it. Doesn't it look soft?
This was so cool: a rotted statue with an angel over it.
You could see it used to have a painted face. It's so eerie how it fell over, and the angel one is standing over it now.
Dead flowers and random vegetables by graves.
Weird looking, right?
And this is me: Miss Autumn Cemetery Weirdo '08.
^_^
ETA: My Mom told me that the statue with the lily might be a saint, so I googled that. It could be St. Anthony, who is often portrayed with a lily. But more likely it is Archangel Gabriel, whose symbol is the lily. I'm so glad because even though I'm nowhere near being Christian, Gabriel is still my favorite Christian myth (probably because Christopher Walken played him,) and the whole time I was taking those photos, I was hoping it was a statue of Gabriel.
