She Who Walks Through Cemeteries...
May. 15th, 2020 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatDuring pandemics. Maybe I should change my name to "she-who-walks-through-cemeteries"? No, too long, and I have troubles spelling cemetery. I keep wanting to spell it with an "a" for some reason.
I took two walks through the cemetery this week. The first? I got lost.
My mother found this amusing. As did I in retrospect. In my defense it is relatively easy to get lost in Greenwood Cemetery...it's basically endless rolling hills, trees, graves, flowering bushes, and pounds. You can, if you go deep enough into it - forget the outside world entirely. Prospect Park is similar - but far more crowded and much harder to avoid pesky people who insist on putting my life in danger. Greenwood - has gates and tends to restrict who enters. Prospect Park lets anyone inside -- so as a result, there are encampments, and people doing whatever they dang well please. For example? I couldn't take a walk in the woods without running into : bicyclists, an oil painter, a professional photography club, several joggers, people doing exercise routines, a couple making out, and a bunch of people smoking pot. I'd recommend avoiding it at all costs...at least for the time being. You can also get lost in Prospect Park, by the way.
The second? I got a map. Both were very long walks, with lots of cool vistas.
Anyhow, take a walk through Greenwood Cemetery with me...and watch me have fun with photography in the process. I never really enjoyed taking photos until I got the Iphone.
Now on to the good stuff...
Dell pond - one of two turtle ponds.
Photographer and a bird - I think it is a coot. He wouldn't let me get a closeup. But I was able to take from a distance and enlarge.
The trick is to pick off times, and to steer clear of the popular paths. For example? I just walked up to the pond and left. Also I didn't go down to the lake - which is very popular. I tended to meander on the less walked paths at all possible. I saw people - but it was about ten, maybe fifteen if that, and not together. And not close. I was as if not more far apart from them - than I am when I leave my apartment building at times.
These walks are helping me stay sane. They clear my head. And they are perfectly safe - far safer than getting food deliveries or doing laundry, or taking out the trash - which are kind of essential activities.
And how weird is it that I feel the need to defend walking in the evening around a cemetery? Greenwood extended their hours at all their gates during the crisis - to help people and provide them with a place to stroll, and a means to visit their dead. The previous hours were 10-4PM on weekdays, and 10-3pm on Sunday. It's why I rarely went - you'd have to go on Saturday.
Now? They are open weekdays from 11 am - 7pm, and 8am to 7pm on weekends.
Although the gates at Fort Hamilton and Park Slope entrances are close to cars during the weekdays. And in the evening hours.
I took two walks through the cemetery this week. The first? I got lost.
My mother found this amusing. As did I in retrospect. In my defense it is relatively easy to get lost in Greenwood Cemetery...it's basically endless rolling hills, trees, graves, flowering bushes, and pounds. You can, if you go deep enough into it - forget the outside world entirely. Prospect Park is similar - but far more crowded and much harder to avoid pesky people who insist on putting my life in danger. Greenwood - has gates and tends to restrict who enters. Prospect Park lets anyone inside -- so as a result, there are encampments, and people doing whatever they dang well please. For example? I couldn't take a walk in the woods without running into : bicyclists, an oil painter, a professional photography club, several joggers, people doing exercise routines, a couple making out, and a bunch of people smoking pot. I'd recommend avoiding it at all costs...at least for the time being. You can also get lost in Prospect Park, by the way.
The second? I got a map. Both were very long walks, with lots of cool vistas.
Anyhow, take a walk through Greenwood Cemetery with me...and watch me have fun with photography in the process. I never really enjoyed taking photos until I got the Iphone.
Now on to the good stuff...
Dell pond - one of two turtle ponds.
Photographer and a bird - I think it is a coot. He wouldn't let me get a closeup. But I was able to take from a distance and enlarge.
The trick is to pick off times, and to steer clear of the popular paths. For example? I just walked up to the pond and left. Also I didn't go down to the lake - which is very popular. I tended to meander on the less walked paths at all possible. I saw people - but it was about ten, maybe fifteen if that, and not together. And not close. I was as if not more far apart from them - than I am when I leave my apartment building at times.
These walks are helping me stay sane. They clear my head. And they are perfectly safe - far safer than getting food deliveries or doing laundry, or taking out the trash - which are kind of essential activities.
And how weird is it that I feel the need to defend walking in the evening around a cemetery? Greenwood extended their hours at all their gates during the crisis - to help people and provide them with a place to stroll, and a means to visit their dead. The previous hours were 10-4PM on weekdays, and 10-3pm on Sunday. It's why I rarely went - you'd have to go on Saturday.
Now? They are open weekdays from 11 am - 7pm, and 8am to 7pm on weekends.
Although the gates at Fort Hamilton and Park Slope entrances are close to cars during the weekdays. And in the evening hours.
re: She Who Walks Through Cemetaries
Date: 2020-05-16 10:46 am (UTC)Very intereresting looking through the different constructions; how some make it a sentence; some a description; some almost poetry.
Wish there were a much deeper database to go through, but this was just me suddenly inspired to go looking; for which I thank you.
April Showers playing on my laptop; only May 16th, but even April seems a century ago.
Much love, stay strong and safe.
Goddess watch over us all,
kerk hiraeth
Re: She Who Walks Through Cemetaries
Date: 2020-05-16 01:02 pm (UTC)Such as..."If the apocalypse comes? Beep me."
Or..."I'm trying to figure out what the plural is of apocalypses?"
"I know, we can all corner him - and you can just sneeze on him."
"It's a bear! You made a bear! Undo it! Undo it!"
Re: She Who Walks Through Cemetaries
Date: 2020-05-16 02:21 pm (UTC)Re: She Who Walks Through Cemetaries
Date: 2020-05-17 02:55 am (UTC)Yeah, I know, I mentioned I was on Day 60 to my brother, who is on Day 65 but he said it felt like day 363. I responded that with the Darwin Award wannabees out there this was going to be endless. So may the Universe watch after us all, and give the Darwin Award Wannabees their awards...asap.
And thank you. Hanging in here. Still well and safe for the most part.