Visiting The Springfield Cemetery
A stroll around the Springfield Cemetery, in Springfield, Massachusetts. It was both a nice little walk and a little bit creepy, too. No ghosts, however, revealed themselves to my intruding camcorder lens.
Fellow blogger, Mark Alamed, over at Exploring Western Massachusetts, has said that cemeteries built back in the 1800s were designed to be visited much like public parks. And a quick view of Springfield Cemetery will show this to be true. It's really something to behold in person. This is without question one of the most beautiful cemeteries I've ever walked through, and will surely be more so when the grass has greened-up and the trees are in bloom. My pans with a camcorder just don't offer the same rich depth of vision that this cemetery provides as you look down from its slopes and terraces.
For more on the Springfield Cemetery, visit their website here.
posted by Bill Dusty @ 3/27/2007
4 comments
4 Comments:
Thanks for this one, Dusty. My parents are buried in there, and I haven't been back home in over 15 years. Keep up the good work.
Bill Postel
Valdosta, Georgia
Hey, thanks back at ya. I'll do a photo tour in the summertime.
Excellent video, Bill. Great musical score, too!
It brought back memories, and has Roma and I thinking we need to take a ride over and walk through the cemetery soon ourselves, once things start blooming. Shouldn't be long now.
That tombstone in the tree was pretty interesting. I guess if the tree lives long enough, it will swallow the little stone up.
Thanks for the plug!
NP, Mark ;-)
I was actually kind of suprised that the tree didn't dislodge the little stone as it grew.
Weird...
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