Photos from She Who Walks Among Graves..

[shadowkat]

These are the photos from the day I got lost - which was Wed, after the five hour negotiation from hell. I was sore for two days after this. The walk helped with the stress - up until the point that I got lost. Also there was more street traffic that day than on Friday for some reason, and less masks.

I'm kind of hoping the fact that the upstate region is starting to re-open - will grab some of the frustrated New Yorkers. The problem with going to the parks - or why they are more crowded than ever before - is there are no gyms, aerobic classes, boxing, tennis, basketball, soccer games, football, baseball, swimming pools, vacations, etc - so all people have is the parks.
There's no where else they can go - but the parks and the side-streets for exercise. Apparently they've opened up more streets now to pedestrians, and closed them to traffic. Also are creating more designated bike lanes. This should make walking about easier. I may start taking much longer walks. Who knows maybe I can walk to the doctor's office in June? The appointment is at 4:20 - if I start at 9 am, I might get there by then.

Anyhow, here's the pictures.

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Flowers:





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3. Sunlight with the Graves..











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Grave of the animal right's activist Henry Bergh who founded the ASPCA.




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Trees and sunlight




Walking through the woods in the cemetery



Monument and Trees





6. More trees, flowers, graves and sunlight on Lookout Hill or Mauseulum Hillside.











Reposting the heron, photographer for apto_omn

Comments

[rose_griffes]

Bergh's grave is interesting.

I like the black and white photos interspersed in here. It helps me to slow down a bit, having something with a different visual aspect.

[cactuswatcher]

Probably not related but curiously similar: That "spooky" building (I don't know whether it's a mausoleum or a chapel) reminds me of the stave churches churches of Norway in style. There is one not much bigger in the folk museum near Oslo.

[atpo_onm]

Always pleasant to find someone who shares one of your fetishes, thus making you feel less of an oddball-- in this case my fascination with trees, and especially ones in the wintertime, usually without leaves.

I remember several decades ago in the early days of computer animation, there ware a number of skeptics who predicted that realistic depictions of some natural things like the complex movement of water, or the branches and leaves of trees could not be achieved because they were "obviously random". Then some clever soul devised the branch of mathematics subsequently known as fractals. Gosh, not random after all!

I suppose for some, knowing that there is math behind the way a tree grows takes the "magic" out of it, but for me it does just the opposite. But whatever their basis, methinks trees be cool. I'm working on posting some, as soon as I can get DW to co-operate. I did get a few uploaded so far.

You did have some extra righthand space on that heron shot, I see. I think that improves it a bit, but your opinion is what counts. I know one of the most frustrating jobs I run into with my own work is cropping. It's delightful when you get a full-frame shot that's perfect as is, but for me anyway that only happens occasionally. Some images, no matter what I do, I can never get exactly the way I like them, there's some discordant element that won't resolve.

Just yesterday I was restoring and printing a picture my sister gave me from one of her granddaughter's wedding. She asked if I could remove some parts of the picture, such as some people in the background, and I did. When I was done, I had a decent restoration that nicely fit an 8.5 x 11 inch frame. Problem was, the image tone called for a warm-toned wooden frame, and I only had an 8 x 10 inch frame. Trivial, right? No, no, nooo... Ach.

I finally got it, but ~sigh~ ... frustration, much?

Oh well, picky does have its rewards, since she was delighted with it, and that's what counts.

[kerk_hiraeth]

I don't know if this'll be of any help, but it's an edition of a programme BBC Radio 3 has been running for a couple of years now called Slow Radio https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002cf6

Part poetry; Welsh and English, part sounds of the natural world. It doesn't say UK only so you should be able to listen for the next four, or five days.

Sending this to a couple of other people who have it a lot worse than I do right now.

Goddess watch over you,
kerk hiraeth

ps, need to sort out a camera for myself as there are a couple of very old; very poignant cemetaries near, or they will be when I can get on a bus to nearby cities of Dundee and Perth again. I think you might like some pictures from them.