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[cornerofmadness]

Here's some pictures of my trip to see evil_little_dog

The Haunted Williard Library

And inside the library. I couldn't do this place justice. It's lovely.


And Oak Hills Cemetery because cemeteries have beautiful art, no really.

Katie and her baby. I have a close up of the baby's grave as well


This little boy was so German, not just in dress but the whole tombstone is in German


Another little boy, feeding a lamb a fish...I'm not entirely sure of the symboltry other than it's very very Christian


Just look at the armband and the detail on her gown, beautiful


And then we have the Catholic cemetery. Ostentatious thy name is Catholic. I'm used to the very flashy Italian graveyards of the North east but midwestern Germans prove they can hold their own.

Why yes, we had more money than God, just look at us


No, no we have more money, look a life sized Jesus and BOTH Mary's


Hey don't count us out. We can reproduce the Pieta!

And here something I've never seen anywhere else. The circle are graves of priest. That's not the surprise. The surprise is the Stations of the Cross ringing around it. I've not seen them outside of a church before (and hey, if you thought they were creepy as a young child in church, that's nothing compared to these large ones outside where pollution makes them look bloody)

Comments

[mjules.livejournal.com]

OOOOOH.

Pretty.

The shot of the lady against just the blue sky with clouds is particularly lovely.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes it is. My new digital camera takes nice photos

[mjules.livejournal.com]

*is jealous*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Mommy and Daddy were kind this Christmas

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I love that architecture.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

isn't it beautiful? I want to live in that library

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

That'd be cool.

Did you ever read this book called "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler". It was about two run-away kids who lived in an old museum.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no i haven't but I have used an old library to house a runaway kid in a story. Was it any good, that book?

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Read it 30 years ago. I remember liking it then.....

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes, i know that feeling. Im afraid to reread some of my old favorites

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Actually, it can be amazing sometimes. Reading as an adult what you liked as a child. There's this one sci-fi story I loved, and when I read it 30 years later, I'm like, "Damn, this author was a big-time Socialist!" I just remember thinking, as a kid, that his alien society was really cool and had things right.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yes there is that. I woudl love to just reread some of the classics that I read in high school with adult experiences behind me now.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

That book was a Newberry award winner. I read it when I wasn't a kid and it's excellent.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh cool. now i'll just have to see if the library has it. They cant seem to get me Howl's Moving Castle or Castles in the Air

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

That library is lovely. And that cemetart is a hoot. Most Jewish graves are on the plain side (although you get your show offs like everywhere else.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

isn't it pretty? Yes I know. Most Jewish cemeteries i've seen are packed in tight and very plain. I can usually tell just from looking at the plots, interesting differences

[rahirah]

Oh, those are nifty! I love that library!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I think everyone is in love with that library. It's such a beautiful place

[spideygirl81.livejournal.com]

O__O See how big my eyes are, the pictures are really beautiful, I wish I was there..and the place itself looks haunted and scary. Were you alone?? Or you had a company??

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

In the library I was....well alone but there were others about. In the cemetery, evil little dog was with m e.

[spideygirl81.livejournal.com]

Oh icic but the library itself looks a bit creepy, if i were to go alone, i will be frighten, lol =D

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Ah, it takesa lot more than that to frighten me I'm afraid

[spideygirl81.livejournal.com]

you are such brave woman unlike like me hehe ;p

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i'm very brave unless there's spiders involved

[spideygirl81.livejournal.com]

LOL!! =D

[sita-137.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous library. Even more gorgeous cemetary. Yes, those Catholics have more money than god. But that's to be expected...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

isn't it though? It was lovely to look at all of it

[mzzgoddessblue.livejournal.com]

gorgeous cemetary photos! i love to wander around old cemetaries.

that library - i've heard about that. did you go in , and did you meet the ghosts? (cos if anyone would, it'd be you)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the ghost was in the basement. But it was ugly down there and I would have had no reason to be snapping pictures so I didn't try.

and I love wanderng old cemetaries too