21 | June | 2024 | MY ENDURING BONES

For Fandango’s One word challenge may I present to you some thoughts and pictures of cemeteries.

Phioto A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery
Beaver Dam WI
October 2023

Cemetery:

Your home away from home

a place to rest your bones

everyone brings your flowers, sings to you, loves you unconditionally

or hates you with passion and even perfect strangers will know your name

because it’s carved in marble, in granite, in stone.

You’re not just a face in the crowd anymore.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Evergreen Washelli Funeral Home and Cemetery

Cemetery:

Where the grass is always trimmed and green and nobody asks you to rake the leaves.

During the winter when it snows, during the Summer when it’s warm

it doesn’t matter what you wear, or what you smell like, or if you’re getting to much Sun

or not enough fresh air.

The seasons pass over head as quietly as time in a haunted house, where it is always

one minute after midnight.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Oakwood Cemetery.
Beaver Dam WI USA
October2023

Cemetery:

Once my granddaughter asked me if there were monsters

buried in these graves and I said

there isn’t a single monster buried here.

She didn’t believe me.

My Granddaughter is a very smart girl.

“Jemma”
October 2023
Photo: A..M. Moscoso

For RDP Thursday: Relics

There are a lot of cool relics to be seen in Las Vegas- the signs, the buildings but one of my favorite relics is this car- I love this car. I want one like it.

Las Vegas, Nevada
2015
Photo A.M. Moscoso

A relic from the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum in the Wisconsin Dells

I know some people don’t like to see bones and human remains used for entertainment purposes, but I say they need to speak for themselves.

I hope my bones end up on display and that they give people nightmares too.

Like Blondie sang, ” dreaming is free “.

Ripleys Believe It Or Not Museum, WIsconsin USA
2018
Photo A.M. Moscoso

A relic from my childhood.

From L To R- my brother Doug, my cousin Eli and me sporting a dress that my grandmother sewed for me. I used to love the dresses she made for me. I still have one and it’s on my Snoopy dog and NO you can’t see it because he is safely packed away ( he’s falling apart with age and back in those days they used to use metal rods in stuffed animals) and he’s a little rough looking. I hate to see him that way. I’d rather remember his the way he was.