kip_w (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kip_w) wrote,@ 2008-04-04 16:13:00 |
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memorial miscellany
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I stopped off at the nearby Lutheran church to give blood today (what the heck, I had some) and saw something interesting from the parking lot.
It's a shed. But not just any shed...
...it's a shed with a lovely stained-glass window. There's something you don't see every day.
I've also been taking pictures in and around local cemeteries.
This is a design I haven't seen before. It has a metal frame (on a stick) with what appears to be a concrete inner piece (the back -- not shown here -- had the look of something that was poured, rather than pried from the earth) with carving on it. There are two side pieces that may have held something. Lanterns? Planters? On either side, there are raised curved stones (one of which has fallen off and become embedded in the soil).
On the way home from something I'll write about later, I also went through the Jewish cemetery again to look at some things that I saw from Google maps. They turned out to be nothing much, but I happened to see another grave with a photo of a young boy on it, which has suffered from the ravages of time.
Another thing I was able to get a decent shot of at last is the rosette from the first harpsichord Dad made. This was carved by his friend Dick Summerfeld, and includes the family initial in the trees, Dad's Roman numeral in the fence the faun stands on, and a reference to his bowhunting held by Diana. He replaced this with a new rosette he carved himself before he sold the instrument.
Interestingly, two of these photos have already had one view each. Either people are fast out there -- perhaps Flickr shows photos as they go up? -- or else Flickr notes sadly that nobody ever looks at my pretty pictures and, from time to time, assigns arbitrary "pity views" to my page stats.
Gotto go now. I have to watch TV with Sarah. Yay, Sponge Bob!
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I stopped off at the nearby Lutheran church to give blood today (what the heck, I had some) and saw something interesting from the parking lot.
It's a shed. But not just any shed...
...it's a shed with a lovely stained-glass window. There's something you don't see every day.
I've also been taking pictures in and around local cemeteries.
This is a design I haven't seen before. It has a metal frame (on a stick) with what appears to be a concrete inner piece (the back -- not shown here -- had the look of something that was poured, rather than pried from the earth) with carving on it. There are two side pieces that may have held something. Lanterns? Planters? On either side, there are raised curved stones (one of which has fallen off and become embedded in the soil).
On the way home from something I'll write about later, I also went through the Jewish cemetery again to look at some things that I saw from Google maps. They turned out to be nothing much, but I happened to see another grave with a photo of a young boy on it, which has suffered from the ravages of time.
Another thing I was able to get a decent shot of at last is the rosette from the first harpsichord Dad made. This was carved by his friend Dick Summerfeld, and includes the family initial in the trees, Dad's Roman numeral in the fence the faun stands on, and a reference to his bowhunting held by Diana. He replaced this with a new rosette he carved himself before he sold the instrument.
Interestingly, two of these photos have already had one view each. Either people are fast out there -- perhaps Flickr shows photos as they go up? -- or else Flickr notes sadly that nobody ever looks at my pretty pictures and, from time to time, assigns arbitrary "pity views" to my page stats.
Gotto go now. I have to watch TV with Sarah. Yay, Sponge Bob!
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