See Memory Links right side column...

 

Looks like a trumpet on top.

Satchmo headstone.

The old and the new....?

Churchill's Stone

I got started, I would have to say, cycling upcountry where I often took breaks biking through small cemeteries reading headstones. Then online got interested viewing headstones of celebrities. Next, I got into reading about the history of cemeteries in this country. From there statuary, and now here I am, where soon enough I am going.

 

Encryption at the top is Winstin Spencer Chruchill, 1874-1965, at 91 and at the bottom is Clemetine Spencer Chruchill. 1885 - 1977 at 92.  

 

There are those who do not want to be buried 

under the ground. If true this implies the assumption 

the spirit is locked in the body.

The flesh when young, is a beautiful promise, but the end can be cumbersome. Click the link Abandoned below. 

Click > Graveyard  Abandoned in 1978   suspended! 

I always think of the many beautiful cemeteries I've visited and cycled through. But this link above connects to all kinds of other abandoned graveyards, and other properties, such as Liberace's restored mansion, abandoned institutions and other structures. 

Rutger Hauer

Tears in the Rain 

I''ve seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter down the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments lost in time, like tears... in the rain

...Time to die. 

From the film Bladerunner, based on a story, Do Adroids Dream of Electric Sheep?, written by Phillip K. Dick in 1968. He died at 53 four months before the release of Bladerunner.  Paraphrased.

 

Underlined verse in Peggy's God's Promises for when you are hurting by Jack Countryman 1915.

Romans 14:7-8

                      I remember Peggy.

View from Peggy's family stone, with the flag, where our ashes will be co-mingled. 

Bob Dylan

 Longer than alive

“The first thing you notice about New Orleans are the burying grounds - the cemeteries - and they're a cold proposition, one of the best things there are here. Going by, you try to be as quiet as possible, better to let them sleep. Greek, Roman, sepulchres- palatial mausoleums made to order, phantomesque, signs and symbols of hidden decay - ghosts of women and men who have sinned and who've died and are now living in tombs. The past doesn't pass away so quickly here.
You could be dead for a long time”
― Bob Dylan