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My Weekend Plans Involve Graveyards and Tacos

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#100DAYSOFHALLOWEEN HAPPY-Weekend

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery
Woodinville WA

This weekend I think I am going to wait for something spooky to happen and if nothing spooky happens I’ll probably eat Tacos and go to a couple of graveyards and look for someone who died on my birthday which is November 5th.

Photo A.,M Moscoso
Forest Mound Cemetery, Wapun WI
2021

Wait. That’s a silly plan. I don’t really like Tacos. I’ll make enchiladas instead.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery
Woodinville WA

Calling Card

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WP Prompt: Where did your name come from?

My 5th Great Grandfather- John Godfrey Birth Date 1769 Death Date 12 Sep 1806 Cemetery St Mary the Virgin Church Burial or Cremation Place Cheshunt, Broxbourne Borough, Hertfordshire, England

 

I am named after my Mom’s

FORMER

best friend.

They had a falling out over 40 years ago and at that point

my Mom stopped calling me Anita.

 

I have been Marie to my Mom and most of my family  since then. I answer to both

Anita, Marie or Anita Marie. It’s all the same to me.

 

Besides, I have seen enough gravestones in my life to know that a name

is only a tag and it’s not what people call you that matters. Its how they

sound when they do it.

Heads-up

I have also learned that naming your kids after your friends isn’t the best idea you

could ever have.

My Great, Great Grandfather: William Robert McDowall 1925 Auld Kirk Cemetery Ontario, Canada

Good One Jules

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The perfect tombstone does not exi-

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“Towards Immortality and Eternal Youth”

is the name of sculpture on the tomb of famed writer Jules Verne in Cimetière de la Madeleine.

Most impressive of all the face of the statue is made using the actual death mask of the writer.

It bears repeating:

The actual death mask.

Good one Jules.

Jules Gabriel Verne · 8 February 1828 · Nantes, Brittany, France
Died24 March 1905 (aged 77) · Amiens, Picardy, France

Villages of The Forgotten Dead

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RDP Monday: CRUMBLE

Graves that are crumbling and falling into ruin seem to be more lively then the often visited and well maintained ones – which is funny when you think about it,

anita

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery/Turner Cemetery
Washington state.

Photot A.M. Moscoso
Bear Creek Cemetery
Washington State

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Comet Lodge Cemetery
Seattle, WA

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery Number One

Photo A.M. Moscoso
Saint Louis Cemetery Number One

“Over all was that air of abandonment and decay which seems nowhere so fit and significant as in a village of the forgotten dead.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Death of Halpin Frayser