Skipped again!
I didn’t feel well at ALL last week, so ended up staying home from work on Wednesday. This resulted in the typical COMPLETE backup of work waiting for me when I got back, and I spent all of Thursday playing catch up. I almost got it all cleared out, but not quite! Since I still didn’t feel that well, I consider that an accomplishment. To top all of it off, my daughter fell in basketball practice and turned her ankle which resulted in a very bad sprain (on the day I was at home sick, of course!) so I ended up taking her to the doctor, and then back again on Thursday for a therapy appointment. She has another one tomorrow, but the ankle is showing definite signs of improvement. You should see all the bright colors it is, tho!
Well, here are the entries for my 365 Project. We went out to Greenwood, Calvary and Emanuel Cemeteries in Dallas today. The graves are SO interesting. Greenwood has several Civil War graves, both Confederate and Union soldiers, and a couple of Dallas’ early mayors are buried there.
Here’s a very elaborate family burial plot, one of several in Greenwood Cemetery.
This family plot was very sad, Mom and Dad both died in the early 1900′s (1911 and 1917, I think), but on the way, they buried 6 of the 7 children here, none of which lived past the age of 7. Two were simply marked “Infant” and the year, and one child lived into adulthood, only to pass away in 1918 probably during WWI, tho the grave wasn’t marked as a veteran’s. I know this was commonplace in those days, but it’s still sad to see a whole family of children like this.
Examples of a couple of the many graves in Greenwood Cemetery marked with elaborate statuary and mausoleums:
This family plot was in Calvary cemetery, one of the more elaborate, though the granite is badly in need of cleaning! All in all, both Calvary and Emanuel are more well tended than Greenwood. I think they have a full time caretaker, whereas Greenwood doesn’t. Obviously, someone visits this grave as these flowers are fairly new (the person buried here died in 1926, so the flowers are not from a recent burial service). The plot’s marker and the individual grave markers would be stunning if they were cleaned, they’re simple and elegant.
Well, that’s all for now! I’m going to an Open House at Art Institutes of Dallas tomorrow. They have a new Photography program I’m interested in, tho I have no idea how I’ll afford it. But, it’s just an Open House, right?
