Music Monday - Cemeteries..

This book promo on Duriwaigh Films is gorgeous (there is no embeddable file as far as I can tell, but scroll down to the bottom to the Guardian: Cemeteries and their Sentinels)- both in imagery, and in music.

Seemed appropriate to include some photos of the old and charming Parowan cemetery we visited a couple of weeks ago (click on any of the pictures to see larger versions with more detail):

It was full of lovely, upright grave markers - many from the original settlers of this small area...

One of the things that seems unique these old tombstones is that many include inspirational quotes...

Large variety of stone carving -

-shapes (so many with lambs...which are used for the very young... sad and touching to see)-

-sizes-

-and ornamentation-

It was a surprisingly sweet, sunlit, pleasant place....

Old, New England Ghosts....

My brother-in-law took me to see their old, local cemetery today...


(and I know I posted "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" yesterday, but it really is the best possible melodic accompaniment. This is a live, a capella version by Sinead O'Connor - awesome).

Grey skies...

Grey stones...

- a tiny bit of lingering fall color...

...but mostly brown, crunchy leaves, moss and lichen...

...and possibly the occasional ghost...?

Hide and Seek - in ghostly places...

One of my sister's family's favorite activities in their lovely, little cemetery is to play Hide and Seek, believe it or not. :-)


(and while there is no video to accompany it, you really should listen to Toni Child's "The Dead are Dancing" while you peruse...)

Who ever is 'it' must count to 30...

...while the remaining players scatter through out the lot...

(some hiding places are more effective than others...)

Today's skeleton girl took to the trees...

Found you!

Ghost Children ....

I couldn't keep my camera off of fairy-niece #2 as she flitted about the cemetery -


(and as such, thought you should listen to Coraline's "The Ghost Children" as you go...)

(who was tapping on my shoulder? There's no one there...)

Don't you just want to pinch those rosy cheeks? Definitely not ghostly!