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impulsereader) wrote2012-10-10 10:15 pm
impulsereader) wrote2012-10-10 10:15 pm
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Toronto Necropolis and Crematorium - Part 2 of 2
I'm back! I've officially forbidden myself to go to another graveyard tomorrow if I don't finish this first. So here I am. Posting these pictures so I can take more pictures I don't have time to post. Sigh. I really had great visions of keeping up with this trip reporting thing this time around. It's not going very well so far. But I am having fun, and I'll have tons of stuff to slowly post once I get home...we'll go with that for now, see how far it gets us.
There were quite a number of signs reminding me where I was.
And one of them was smack in the middle of these tributes.
Impressive gentlemen, yes? Do go on, founders...tell us more.
Oh, I'm hooked. If they weren't all dead we could go out and do good together! I cannot wait to see what comes next.
Wow. Um. OK. Sorry John, I don't think you really qualify for our little club here. I mean really, an upright merchant? Maybe try harder in your next life? But wait, there's still one more group. I'm sure that'll round out our little band of do-gooders nicely.
*Snerk* Really? Honestly? I guess there have always been jocks and there always will be jocks.
Anywho, moving on.
I love this little decoration, I've not seen anything like it before and I think it's actually quite contemporary.
It decorates this grave. I couldn't get all the text without moving the artificial flowers, and since it seemed seasonal and therefore recently placed I didn't want to disturb the display overmuch.
Old and interesting:
Isn't this pretty?
And these.
Over here you'll see single names or simply Mother or Father etc., but always within the context of a family plot. This one was all by its lonesome.
Isn't this odd with the diagonal text? I don't think I've seen that before either. Also a bonus Pride and Prejudice reference.
And a little Autumnal atmosphere for you.
Names which struck me as unusual.
The only thing like this I've seen before were soldiers' graves which had been paid for by the government - all alike and in a row. Here they formed a path - a path that was so long I was a little freaked out when I realized it was a path of headstones rather than stepping stones.
Up close they look like this.
And this is part of the path.
I still think it's freaky and I can't figure out if there are bodies or not. This place covers all options, so they could just be memorial stones. I walked the path and a few caught my eye.
Granted, you might have to think about this one a bit.
All right, winding down. Some random just nice ones along the way out.
And I'd been trying to get one of these cute black squirrels for a day and a half before one would pose nicely for me - on a headstone no less!
That's a wrap, thanks for sticking with me!
There were quite a number of signs reminding me where I was.
And one of them was smack in the middle of these tributes.
Impressive gentlemen, yes? Do go on, founders...tell us more.
Oh, I'm hooked. If they weren't all dead we could go out and do good together! I cannot wait to see what comes next.
Wow. Um. OK. Sorry John, I don't think you really qualify for our little club here. I mean really, an upright merchant? Maybe try harder in your next life? But wait, there's still one more group. I'm sure that'll round out our little band of do-gooders nicely.
*Snerk* Really? Honestly? I guess there have always been jocks and there always will be jocks.
Anywho, moving on.
I love this little decoration, I've not seen anything like it before and I think it's actually quite contemporary.
It decorates this grave. I couldn't get all the text without moving the artificial flowers, and since it seemed seasonal and therefore recently placed I didn't want to disturb the display overmuch.
Old and interesting:
Isn't this pretty?
And these.
Over here you'll see single names or simply Mother or Father etc., but always within the context of a family plot. This one was all by its lonesome.
Isn't this odd with the diagonal text? I don't think I've seen that before either. Also a bonus Pride and Prejudice reference.
And a little Autumnal atmosphere for you.
Names which struck me as unusual.
The only thing like this I've seen before were soldiers' graves which had been paid for by the government - all alike and in a row. Here they formed a path - a path that was so long I was a little freaked out when I realized it was a path of headstones rather than stepping stones.
Up close they look like this.
And this is part of the path.
I still think it's freaky and I can't figure out if there are bodies or not. This place covers all options, so they could just be memorial stones. I walked the path and a few caught my eye.
Granted, you might have to think about this one a bit.
All right, winding down. Some random just nice ones along the way out.
And I'd been trying to get one of these cute black squirrels for a day and a half before one would pose nicely for me - on a headstone no less!
That's a wrap, thanks for sticking with me!
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I'd love to see Lowestoft's cemetery. I have so many cemetery pictures that are completely unorganized. I'm wondering if I could get myself organized and try slowly posting those here so that there's some order to them. Another project...just what I need...
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You see, San Francisco can be a very, very crowded place. And eventually they decided that they didn't have room for the dead anymore. So they dug up the graves and shipped everybody/everything off to an out of the way piece of land, where they founded a necropolis named Colma (current slogan, I kid you not, "It's great to be alive in Colma!"). Some of the monuments are quite gloriously Victorian. And various organizations give tours. If you've seen Harold and Maude, you've seen part of Colma, as that's where the military cemetery is, too.
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