Graveyard Scene
Gottfrid Kallstenius (Swedish, 1861 –1943)
This portrait intrigues me-a grave covered with living flowers.
Flowers and Graves
cemetery art
When It Rains
Inspired by Weekly Prompts: GARDEN
Photographer Unknown
Some people think that there is nothing more sad then when it rains during a funeral
and you can’t hear the service because all you can hear is the sound of the rain drops
hitting your umbrella.
Sadder then that is knowing that the rain will not feed or make anything live in this
regrettable garden.
Photographer
Aaron Swift
2008
I don’t feel that way.
I think the thought of it raining upon a cemetery when nobody
is there to hold an umbrella over their heads
to wish for bluer, gentle skies
and all the sleeping dead have to hear
are the sounds of the rain hitting the empty ground above them is the saddest thing of all.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery
Woodinville WA
Jemma and The Cemetery Angel
For Cellpic Sunday.
Back in 2021, I took my son and granddaughter on her first Cemetery exploration field trip.
She asked about monsters and then she gathered up her courage ( and her Dad ) and went up to the biggest monument in the cemetery and she reached out and touched it’s hand. She kept her eyes on it’s face and asked why it was sleeping and all I could think to say is that it was naptime. Then she asked if all of the monsters in their graves were taking a nap and I said, ‘ yes ‘.
She seemed relieved to hear that.
Julio and Jemma
August 6th, 2021
Wisconsin USA
Photo A.M. Moscoso
A couple of days later we walked across the street to a church so that Jemma could take one of her electric cars out for a spin in the lot and she trotted up to these statues to have a talk with them ( that’s what she told me ). She didn’t tell me what they talked about.
All I know is that she wanted to talk with the tall ‘angel lady’ and kept a protective arm around the ‘little girl’ the entire time.
” Jeamma “
August 9, 2021
Fox Lake, Wisconsin
USA
My granddaughter may have been a little scared of cemeteries and what sleeps in them back in 2021 but this was Jemma last Halloween. I think it’s safe to say she isn’t intimated by them now- would you?
Jemma as Wednesday
Photo A.M. Moscoso
2023
So sleep on, with no fear.
Epitaphs are lullabies carved in stone
and I think that they are the saddest songs we sing.
Photo A.M. Moscoso Woodinville Washington USA
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Puyallup WA. Usa
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery
Woodinville Washington USA
Johannes Brahms Lyrics
Lullaby and Good Night Lyrics
Lullaby, and good night,
With pink roses bedight,
With lilies o’erspread,
Is my baby’s sweet head.
Lay you down now, and rest,
May your slumber be blessed!
Lay you down now, and rest,
May thy slumber be blessed!
Lullaby, and good night,
You’re your mother’s delight,
Shining angels beside
My darling abide.
Soft and warm is your bed,
Close your eyes and rest your head.
Soft and warm is your bed,
Close your eyes and rest your head.
Sleepyhead, close your eyes.
Mother’s right here beside you.
I’ll protect you from harm,
You will wake in my arms.
Guardian angels are near,
So sleep on, with no fear.
Guardian angels are near,
So sleep on, with no fear.
Lullaby, and sleep tight.
Hush! My darling is sleeping,
On his sheets white as cream,
With his head full of dreams.
When the sky’s bright with dawn,
He will wake in the morning.
When noontide warms the world,