A Figure In Black

If you had been at this cemetery in October

Photo J.M. Moscoso
Stone Cemetery
Rolling Prairie, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
October 2025

and had you stood on the lowest step and looked  up

Photo J.M. Moscoso Stone Cemetery Rolling Prairie, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA October 2025

You would have seen a figure

a regal form in black

wandering among the gravestones

with her eyes firmly latched

on the sights

and sounds

below her feet.

Photo J.M. Moscoso
Stone Cemetery
Rolling Prairie, Dodge County, Wisconsin, USA
October 2025

RDP Wednesday: REGAL

She Got The Chair

RDP Tuesday: EXPLORE
Last year on my visit to the Ripley’s Museum in Wisconsin just before Halloween I took these pictures of a chair used in Momento Mori Photography

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Example of a chair used in Momento Mori Photography-
Ripley’s Museum, Dells WI
2024

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Example of a chair used in Momento Mori Photography-
Ripley’s Museum, Dells WI
2024

I went back again this year ( they move the exhibits around so it’s fun to run across things I missed on my last visit ) but this year I had my Granddaughter Jemma sit in the chair and I asked her to make a ‘spooky face ‘

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma
Ripley’s Believe it Or Not Museum, WI Dells USA

She brought it and I got a pretty spooky face to go with the morbid display she posed in.

As a side note, once she sat in the chair, I saw how small it was- child sized. I know, that was creepy. I didn’t tell her what the chair was used for, but one day I will.

She won’t be freaked out. She’s my granddaughter. She’ll probably put this b/w photo on a Christmas card lol

AMM