I love these bronze portraits you get on Victorian gravestones as they provide a great snapshot of the fashions of the past, especially of male facial hair. This is the Reverend John Stark, minister in Duntocher, who died in the 1880s and is buried in the Old Kilpatrick Church Yard.
#Bonjour! I need the help of someone who is located in #Paris, to go into the Cimetière Montmarte and take a couple of photos for me.
The De la Cruz family tombstone is in division 21, ligne 2/65, on the Avenue Cordier. I'm happy to offer 20 EUR to anyone who can get me some good snapshots of it.
For all of you not in Paris, please boost so that this request reaches #France!
Glasgow Necropolis. Built on the remains of an extinct volcano, it was opened in 1833. While there are around 3,500 grave monuments, there are up to 50,000 people buried within it, meaning most burials remain unmarked.
A beautifully sculpted Celtic Cross, with an Art Nouveau feel to it, on the grave of Alexander McCutcheon, a former treasurer for the City of Glasgow who died in 1914 and who is buried in the city's Necropolis.
A health worker releases mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which are expected to block the spread of dengue fever, in Sao Francisco Xavier cemetery in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares
A street vendor carries #balloons for sale during celebrations for #Nowruz the Persian new year, in Kabul. Nowruz has been celebrated for at least three thousand years
I'm learning about #gis while building a #django app to manage the arboretum at #lancaster#cemetery. The blue markers are our trees, and the red polygons are #garden plots.
The incessant rain of the last week has kept us indoors but today we managed to head out for a walk through the cemetery once more. I think it would be fair to say that the squirrels and pigeons and crows have missed us. We had a scurrying and flapping posse accompany us and launch themselves ahead of us to wait for the entire walking route.
While I was in college, I studied in Paris for a few months and while I was there, I visited the Normandy American Cemetery (Cimetière Américain de Normandie). The first photo is from that first visit. I remember looking for the headstone of a serviceman from Wisconsin and laying a flower in front of it. The second photo is from when I returned in 2019.