These graves look like they have an excellent view of the event – whatever that may be! They make me think of a concert in the park where everyone brings a picnic and enjoys the event from deck chairs. In Britain they would have brought umbrellas as well 🙂
Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff has many aspects to it.
The Audience
Some hide away
Some prefer to be more private and hide away amongst the greenery.
This cemetery has it all, even a “downtown” area with sky scrapers!
Downtown at the cemetery
Bishop John Cuthbert Hedley was quite a guy if you judge by the stature of his tomb in Cathays Cemetery. I wonder if he would get such a piece of architecture these days? (see Monday’s post, “When was the last time . . . “)
The Tomb of the Bishop John Cuthbert Hedley
The Tomb of the Bishop
The prompt to this weeks blog posts were the Angels in yesterdays post.
So, going back to the beginning, todays images are of the entrance to the cemetery which, although in need of some maintenance, is still an impressive structure and suggests, even before you enter, the size and importance of the cemetery.
All photos taken on my iPhone.
Cathays Cemetery Entrance
Inside the secondary entrance to the cemetery
Entrance detail
Strange place for a tree!
. . . you saw tombstones on this scale made in recent years?
I am going to be looking around Cathays Cemetery in Cardiff this week. By that I mean I had a walk around the cemetery on Saturday (in the bitter cold!) and one of the the first things that struck me was the scale of these angels and some of the other tombstones from the past. Ahh! They don’t make them like that any more. 🙂
All photos taken on my iPhone.
Angel
Angel
Less Angelic, more imperial
French Garden – Two more photos from my parents’ garden in Faye la Vineuse and you can see it below in the StillWalks “Garden Walk, France”.
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The house is for sale and you see the StillWalks house tour here and get further details on the house website.
Looking Out
Looking Down
New StillWalks – I have just completed a new StillWalk, for Summer, of my parents garden in France, “Garden Walk, France”. It is a beautiful garden and the sounds of the birds and bees, the church bells and the peace take me straight back there.
There is also a StillWalk house tour produced to help sell the house. Anyone interested should check it out and if you know of anyone who may be interested, please pass this on.
French House
Busy Bees
Looking at things from another angle is important – you always gain a new perspective.
The first shot could have been taken on a different day to the others, but no, just a different angle.
Balancing Act
Different Angles
Different Angles
The shot above looks as though it could have been “Photoshopped”, but I swear it hasn’t – it’s just the angle!
All images are from the StillWalk “Coastal Walk”.
It seems to me that these stones are an audience in the circle watching the tide –
Watching
– but really it is their balancing act that is the attraction!
Balancing Act
With each StillWalk I produce, I select nine or ten images as stand alone shots and make them available for purchase. These are two more from the “Coastal Walk” in Spring in South West Scotland. The photos are available to buy at PhotoBox.