Comments on: Snowfall At Bow Cemetery

By: April

April — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 21:13:40 +0000

I too love old cemeteries! I once spent a wonderful hour or so wandering through an ancient, completely overgrown and untended cemetery near Southampton.

By: Pamela Traves

Pamela Traves — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 02:33:43 +0000

Thank You for these Lovely Vintage Pictures. ??????

By: Helen Breen

Helen Breen — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 22:49:08 +0000

GA, what a beautiful reflective piece – “A freezing mist hung beneath the high woodland canopy, and the covering of white served to emphasise the rich green and golden lichen hues of the stones, and subtle brown tones of the tree trunks ascending from among the graves.” Great writing.

So glad you could see “the sparse green spears” presaging spring. You always give us hope…

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 18:06:43 +0000

This is so lovely. I hope I can visit the cemetery one day, if I’m ever able to go back to England.

By: Di Corry

Di Corry — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 16:41:42 +0000

Thank you GA For taking us all on a serene stroll in that beautiful place where some of my East End family ‘lay slumbering’.
Your photographs are simply beautiful.

By: John C. Miles

John C. Miles — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 15:07:06 +0000

Thank you, GA, for yet another thought-provoking post – and for your atmospheric photographs. Media vita in morte sumus.

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:06:58 +0000

I like visiting graveyards. It’s the peace and tranquility, the older ones are full of beautiful headstones that tell stories of social history with regard to issues like the rate of infant mortality (Dean Village in Edinburgh has an old graveyard where every second family monument has a child under the age of 3 buried). Even as a child I visited the graveyard near my house just to read a book.
I went to one in Copenhagen 2 years ago, very interesting as it was laid out like a street system and had noticeboards telling you who was buried in each part.

By: Lynne Perrella

Lynne Perrella — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:05:23 +0000

Ah, the snowfall is a great equalizer. It makes YOUR cemetery look very much like our
historic cemetery here in little Ancram. Our small town has at least seven so-called “family cemeteries” tucked into farmland; the names on the ancient head stones are still the commonly-heard names hereabouts. One of these small discreet cemeteries was recently rehabilitated by the landowner, and the previously-tumbled-down grave markers and pediment are erect, and the stone wall has been re-jiggered. Calm has been restored. And, wearing its winter robes — it is quite beautiful.
I so admired the touches of green velvet on the gallant stones in your photos. And the fox —
skulking past, in a hurry.
Stay safe, all. Thank you, GA, as ever.

By: Linda Granfield

Linda Granfield — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:16:07 +0000

“crocus-spangled”–lovely! And I can’t wait for those days to arrive.

The snow on the ivy-covered trees and the green lichen–fine “exterior decorating.” Thank you for this peaceful walk.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 11:15:45 +0000

Pictures from another world, full of melancholy. Through your words and image, I suddenly walked in the cemetery for a few instants.