It's Theme Day again, and the bloggers at City Daily Photo Blogs get to choose their favorite part of town. So now, can you believe that mine is a cemetery?
Old Live Oak Cemetery is simply magnificent in spring. The garden atmosphere amid ornate monuments and billowing Spanish Moss is both romantic and haunting. Whenever I need something new for the blog, there is always a statue , a flower or an inscription that I've never noticed before. And, while it's located next to busy Dallas Avenue, the sounds of traffic seem to fade away...right along with the etchings of weathered gravestones.
(Spring is not this far along here YET! I snapped this photograph a few springs ago.)
(Spring is not this far along here YET! I snapped this photograph a few springs ago.)
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11 comments:
It is so lovely! We have a similar cemetery a block from my office and I like to go over there sometimes during lunch and enjoy the quiet. It looks a lot like this one with the Spanish moss hanging from the trees.
Yes, these old cemeteries really pay peaceful tributes to the lives of loved ones.
Why have I never heard of this gorgeous place? You are so right, it is magnificent. I"m guessing in just a few weeks it will be this lovely again. Terrific photograph.
V
Virginia, Old Live Oak Cemetery is the setting for Selma's Pilgrimage "ghost tour" every year. If we don't get a hard freeze, some dogwoods, redbuds and azaleas should be in bloom then.
Very striking. The white monuments and the red azaeleas.
it's beautiful! i love old cemeteries!
The colour scheme from top to bottom is terrific. Cemetery...why not; they're such restful places.
that's a lot of spanish moss - looks so pretty!
Stunning photograph.
Beautiful picture. Love the trees with spanish moss. You can find Spanish moss in Wilmington, NC but none here in Selma.
Thanks, Moon. Interesting about where the Spanish Moss cuts off. There is plenty in Selma and a lot just down the road from our house but none north of here.
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