A Brief Walk in Kensington Brooklyn...

[shadowkat]

[As an aside, My Little Novel That Could is doing quite well considering I only released it on May 5, and I had a bit of an interruption due to the fact that the publisher forgot to include the author bio and had to fix it. MD has decided to recommend it for her book club and they've agreed to do it. And asked if I'd like to attend. Yippee.]

Anywho...took lovely and meditative walk around Greenwood Cemetery, passed an Indian Bazarr on the way home, and got safely inside at least an hour prior to the encroaching thunderstorm. Greenwood Cemetery is a great place to walk around, only thing you have to worry about is the occasional motorist. It's quiet, filled with trees, and long idyllic pastures, plus lots of decorative tombstones dating back to the 1700s. The Indian Bazarr, or rather street fair but in Little Bangledash/Pakistan/India aka MacDonald Street, felt a bit like I'd suddenly traveled to another country. NYC is like that..you can at times feel like you've been transported to another country entirely.

I took pictures.

Comments

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

That's a nice mausoleum in your second photo.

I like the cemeteries in France, but the tall, thin tombs always make me expect one to suddenly fade out of existence with a "VWORP VWORP" noise...

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yep, have similar feelings.

I think the older the cemetery is, the more interesting and beautiful it is. The newer ones sort of look a bit too well maintained, and not enough trees.

Greenwood is famous - partly because it has Leonard Berstein resting next to Bugsy Malone or Lou Dimaggio next to Al Capone. (Or something like that.)