March Theme Day, My Favorite Part of Town

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.) 

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Guard Dog?

As I snapped pictures in Old Live Oak Cemetery the other day, this beautiful black and white dog appeared and looked at me as if to say, "What are you doing in MY territory?" Then, she turned around and trotted on.

Be sure and check the City Daily Photo Blogs Friday for a special Theme Day photo project, Best Picture of 2009.

Prayer at the Gate

As many times as I have strolled through Old Live Oak Cemetery, I never noticed this "prayer at the gate" until recently. These comforting words are inscribed in one of the stone pillars on the Selma Avenue side of the graveyard.