Last week was Spring Break here at Alluvial Flood Plain State University... I went down to one of my favorite places to go...
GirlShoes continues to have issues with her Mom... she wanted me to come back down, never mind I was just down there a few weeks ago.
I really enjoy this city... one of the most amazing places to which I always find myself insanely attracted are the cemeteries down there...
Since most of NOLA is below sea level , the dead there tend to be interred in crypts... and those crypts create the most amazing cities... I love to just roam them... reading the various inscriptions... looking at 'shrines' that maybe have been left at some of the tombs...
The weather seems to have taken it's toll on the face plate of this one. Behind the marble face plate, the crypts have been sealed with brick and mortar... Over time the coating of the tombs will break away and reveal the brick structure underneath... and it's just time before Mother Nature starts taking over...
This was the side of one of the crypts... even from the Dead, Life springs...
I wonder for how many years this angel has protected the people who have been placed inside of this structure. The cemeteries in NOLA are home to some of the most beautiful funerary sculptures... in recent years, the theft of these have soared, and I've read where many have been recovered from antique dealers as far away as San Francisco...
Even though the cemetery in some places appears to be neglected, there is a beauty... a romance... to these places. From time to time, I would pass a lone person walking down the pathway... and after a few steps, I would turn to look... to make sure he or she was still there, and that I hadn't just passed some specter risen from the grave.
As beautiful as this place can be during the day light hours, I bet it is one scary place to be after sundown... I would love to spend the night in one of these places though... who knows what one would see...
New Orleans...
GirlShoes continues to have issues with her Mom... she wanted me to come back down, never mind I was just down there a few weeks ago.
I really enjoy this city... one of the most amazing places to which I always find myself insanely attracted are the cemeteries down there...
This one seems to have a couple of openings...
The weather seems to have taken it's toll on the face plate of this one. Behind the marble face plate, the crypts have been sealed with brick and mortar... Over time the coating of the tombs will break away and reveal the brick structure underneath... and it's just time before Mother Nature starts taking over...
I wonder for how many years this angel has protected the people who have been placed inside of this structure. The cemeteries in NOLA are home to some of the most beautiful funerary sculptures... in recent years, the theft of these have soared, and I've read where many have been recovered from antique dealers as far away as San Francisco...
~shoes~
I would not want to be in any cemetary at night, while living. After I'm dead it won't matter.
ReplyDeleteGood grief shoes... your photos are AMAZING!!! I have a fetish for cemeteries... call me nuts. But - you see why...
ReplyDeletec'mere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(i just yelled that.)
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I am starting to think you write these NOLA posts just to tease me, don't you? I have never gone through a cemetary when down there but I would love to. I also love cemetaries. I used to live very close to a cemetary and would love just walking through and reading the headstones. It was so peaceful in there, like being in another world. Awesome post, Shoesies.
ReplyDeleteI would definitely want to see those too.
ReplyDeleteWhat great pictures! I love the cemeteries in NO - did a whole tour, twice! The history is fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThe photos are great. I especially like the bricks, where life is trying so hard to remain a force. I find cemetarys interesting. Not spooky. Love the one with a couple openings. Wonder who escaped?
ReplyDeleteI'd love to see this for myself. Your pictures are a great substitute for the real thing. It's hard to believe someone would steal a graveyard statue or plaque. Seems this would be universally viewed as the worst of crimes.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVE New Orleans! I really want to go there for Memorial Day weekend but I have no one to go with so I will just pass.
ReplyDeleteIt's shameful re the antique thieves. I do like a stroll in a nice old cemetery. There is something serene and humbling about it. Plus I like to imagine the lives of the people / families buried.
ReplyDeleteI dare you!!!!
ReplyDeletewell HELLO RED SHOES! love NOLA, love your photo's... LOVE your bio! can't believe I've never visited the cemetery. I'll be down for the quarter french so I'll have to put in on my agenda.
ReplyDelete@ Charlene... you know why they have fences around cemeteries don't you?? People are just dyin' to get in...
ReplyDeleteWokawokawokawoka...
@ Red.Neck... a fetish? For cemeteries?? YIKES!!!
@ Just Another Girl... Hey you... Yes, I have it timed... so that I can write these NOLA posts and tease you endlessly... ;o) You should take a tour on one of the cemetery tours... they are SO interesting...
@ Bathwater... there are some things in NOLA just worth seeing!! These are among them!!! I hope all is well with you!!
@ Nitebyrd... hey YOU!! Oddly enough, I was thinking of you as we went through this place... YOu should see where GirlShoes has her Voodoo doll in her house! She adores it!!
@ Wine and Words... I KNOW!!! I like the contradictions.. like the vines in the bricks... I've got the neatest camera... an Olympus.. it takes fantastic photos!! The cemeteries are really romantic... It may sound strange to say, but one just has to experience them...
@ Yogurt... thank you, I have a great camera... I can't take any other credit for them! I would highly recommend a tour when you get down there... they are so much fun... so interesting!!
@ Tee... you should go anyway!!! What a fun place to visit!! How are you settling in there in Atlanta??
@ La Cremiere... I do that same thing! I read the names... wonder about their lives... what great loves they may have experienced... what heartbreaks...
@ Danielle... er... dare me to do WHAT?!?!?! :oD
@ Green Monkey!!!!!!!!!! You will most definitely have to place the cemeteries on your agenda!!!
~shoes~