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Tag: cemeteries
Occulture Talk & a Gift
Delightful birthday gifts for me yesterday (thank you all!) included my Occulture talk going live on YT. Do check out all the speakers — so many inspiring talks from interesting and knowledgeable people. I’m afeared to watch myself but you are welcome to do so. A reminder, too, that the Fox Spirit Collection Fearless Genre…
Dutch Cemetery, Claverack
As part of History day at Claverack Library, the Dutch Reformed Church ran a tour through the cemetery. While I have lived in this area for some time now, I had never wandered through this place, though I drive by it so often I always think I should. While retaining the restrained, no-nonsense affect you…
Sounding Line – Mella Shaw
Sounding the alarm of the precarity of everything at the McManus: Mella Shaw’s Sounding Line installation offers an unsettling reminder that we are killing the world. Her immense white ceramic sculptures — modelled on the tiniest of inner ear bones of whales — attach to thick red ropes through which sonar pulses run. The same…
St. George’s Gardens
London is full of unexpected little corners and green spaces. You turn a corner and there’s something unexpected. Here’s a great little garden space that also was one of the first burial grounds not directly attached to a church, but serving two Saint Georges (Queen Square and Bloomsbury). Well worth the jaunt from my hotel…
Round the Howff
I bestirred myself to actually leave the house and have a wander in town despite the fact that it was hot and there is a bus driver strike on (also fire fighters). As always the Howff proved a cool respite from the heat and a peaceful place to sit for a while and just be….
In the Howff
Hares or rabbits? You tell me. I’m guessing from the white tail, rabbits. Seagulls a plenty, starlings, a magpie I couldn’t quite capture with the phone. I was struck by their proximity to the grave of a veterinarian. Wee daisies. And unexpected augmentation of a cherub. Such a peaceful oasis in central Dundee.
Gothic Mists
It would have been a crime to waste this beautiful misty morning late in the year, and after all I was dropping off the recycling at the transfer station nearby, so a little jaunt through Hudson City Cemetery seemed just the thing.
Cedar Park Cemetery
What a lovely day for the tour. I found much to interest me in this local cemetery — and maybe even inspire a story or two. Thank to the Hudson Library for sponsoring this tour by Kelley Drahushuk from Spotty Dog Books & Ale. Anna and I had a great time learning some history and finding…