(The white roses in my yard are beautiful right now)
I know this is weird, but I like cemeteries. I love the feeling of peace and calm that prevails. If our town would have ever hired a woman as a caretaker for the cemetery I would have liked to be that person.
I like cemeteries so much I do research for people interested in getting a photo of a headstone in their family. I also help find people who have lost the knowledge they have an empty plot in a local cemetery.
My children have grown up waling around with me looking for this headstone or that. They have also grown up reading the headstones…some are very sad.
Delta is a fairly young town —established in 1883, so our stones only go back that far.
Every month I go to the two in our town, refreshing the the faded silks flowers I placed upon the many graves of family.
On my last visit I realized that the corner fences would work perfectly for The Run*A*Round Ranch’s Good Fences and Gates Thursday.
I felt that these corner fences do a nice job of keeping people off the grass and corralling the stone…:) Just a joke…please don’t send hate email!
If you would like to visit Theresa and her many blogging friends and there fences (and gates) head over here. While you are there post a fence or two of your own! Good fences always make good neighbors; in this case neighbors from around the globe!
Your friend,
Linda
Life on a Colorado Farm 
I find visiting the cemetery to be a very peaceful time.. I often go to visit and look for birds in the cemetery where my grandmother is buried. I think she would not mind,she loved the birds too. Great shot, have a happy day!
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you’re so cute. gotta keep those stones from rolling, you know! it does make a nice view. 🙂
and your roses are GORGEOUS!
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Oh! I love old cemeteries. There are a lot of small family cemeteries around here, I love to visit them. Some are well cared for, others not. There is a cemetery in a little logging town of Roslyn in the mountains where I grew up that is all segregated. Kinda interesting.
Love the fence!
Cheri
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Beautiful photo of your roses! I like older cemeteries also – Delta’s is pretty. Nice fence shot! My grandmother grew up in Idaho Springs area. When time allows amd I am up that way, it’s always interesting to stop. However unlike your beautiful cemetery, it’s kind of neglected and on a steep hillside. How lovely that you replace the flowers.
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I wish you could get out this way someday! The cemeteries are so old. There is an old church in Old City Philly where Ben Franklin is buried along with several other notable people of that time, and some of the stones are so old that the rain has worn away the engravings. So many interesting (and you’re right, sometimes sad) stories.
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Great fence shot and I love your header.
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My hubby likes to visit old cemeteries…me….not so much. 🙂
So many have beautiful fences, tho.
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I love old cemeteries too. We used to live near one that had such beautiful personal inscriptions on them. Some were very sad of children who had died before their time. And, yes, those stones need to be kept in their place.
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I love cemeteries, too. There is a tiny pioneer cemetery in a nearby town that is terribly interesting. There are several headstones around the perimeter that are half-sunk in the dry dirt. I brush the leaves and dirt away as best I can, because it makes me so sad that they are off to the side forgotten.
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Your roses are lovely. Can’t grow them here, except for the wild kind. When I was a child my mother and I visited the old cemeteries, too. Whenever we travel, I always search out the old cemeteries….the epitaphs tell so many stories.
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Nice. Around here the cemetery fences are much more industrial strength instead of homey.
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This is a very peaceful — beautiful — scene. Your roses are beautiful as well.
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Like the cemeteries in the USA much more than in Holland (country of origin) – because in the latter they don’t have grass in between the graves, but river rocks (except for the older ones connected to a church). Love your header!
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I love old tombstone epitaphs, and the really old graves have the best ones. My favourite is from a tomb in England: “She went ahead/He for a little tried/To live without her/Liked it not and died”. How lovely is that? Beautiful roses, ma’am.
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Oh, Linda, your header is stunning!! They are so pure and beautiful…can almost smell them!
I, too, love to go to cemeteries and read headstones. I spent many an hour in ones in Colorado on the eastern slope in the mountains in the late 60’s, early 70’s. They can really tell a story sometimes and the most unusual shapes, too! I like the fence in your picture, must keep those stones corralled!!
Blessings!
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HA HA—-gotta keep those stones from walking away, huh????? Love it!!! You have a great sense of humor…. I too love cemeteries –and love going to older ones –looking at the stones and reading the info.. Helps me to associate with those people –and think about their lives back then…
Hugs,
Betsy
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You’re not weird. wonderful fence image.
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I like to read old tombstones, too. As you said, some are very sad. I like how you noticed the fence and were able to share another of your interests.
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P.S. The white roses ARE beautiful!
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Cemeteries can be very interesting places. Ours was established in 1851. I think that is a very nice looking fence there and I love that you go and decorate your family graves with silk flowers.
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Hi Linda. Thanks for the great blog. You should look up findagrave.com online. You can register and then volunteer to take a photo of a headstone in cemeteries near where you live when people put in a photo request. You can also make memorials for loved ones and put them on findagrave. All the info on findagrave also goes onto ancestry.com for genealogists all over the world to use. Findagrave is a great site for people working on their family trees too. Love your blog. Always so interesting.
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Oh, yes! I’ve been registered there since 2007. I’ve also put many a stone on the site. But Thanks for posting this so everyone else can head over there.
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