Today is the fith anniversary of 9-11. My thoughts are divided today, a memory of that day but interspirsed with the thoughts of the happenings now. My little neck of the woods has had a lot of news the past few months with the escape of a prisoner in Buffalo who became one of the FBI's most wanted. He was not to far from us and was captured in my county by one of our sherriff deputies. 15 min drive from my home. Today a family in Sarrasota N.Y. bury the state trooper they say was shot by this prisoner. Their thoughts are in the present I'm sure.  Today I too am thinking of the present as tomorrow my sister buries her husband of 36 yrs. who died this past week. Tears are for all of us this week. Our pain is no less than what the ones who lost their loved ones five years ago and of the ones who continue to loose loved ones everyday. My heart is very sad today for the loses of everyone as well as my family.

 

I have been spending as much time as I can walking my cemeteries. I will have many things to enter when weather is bad. Weather this month has been really great.
I've been working a lot of extra this summer covering for other nurses on vacation.It gives me extra money but cuts into my hobby. After walking all day I am too tired to walk more.
I have found some very different headstones. Some are made by hand some will last but many home made ones will deteriorate.So much love you can see in them.

I have just started a new interest. Cemetery Research and photographing tombstones. This has become a great passion for me. I find it so interesting to see old cemeteries and old tombstones. It is a great shame that so many tombstones of the past are either wearing out from the elements or being destroyed by vandals. I have found that people have been known to use the stones as sidewalk  stones. The new cemeteries like to have the flat stones so it is easier to mow. I like to read inscriptions on the older ones but have found some of the newer ones are getting to be more ornate. I wonder how people one hundred years from now are going to view the cemeteries of this time? Will they stroll thru them as they did in the early 1900's or just have them all torn up and plowed over as we have done in the past only so there are none at all ?