The cemetery and Anthony Shimer

[Steiner]

As requested, here are some better photos.


The family plot


The Man With The Plant


Mr. Shimer


Now this is interesting. Behind a row of trees are these cement sarcophagi. I presume they're empty, but I don't know for sure.


View from on top of the casket stacks.


The chapel's windows are broken out and it's unused, but I love this view anyway.


On the horizon between the headstones you can see the plumes of vapor from our nuclear plant's cooling towers.


My favorite headstone. As far as I can figure, either Earl was afraid of being buried alive or someone eles was afraid ol' Earl wouldn't have enough air. I don't know. Why else would you have a ventilated grave?

[George61]

What part of the world is this, Steins??

[Steiner]

The outskirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

[Mr Nobody]

There was a tradition in some places to put a ventilation shaft or speaker tube just in case they weren't dead yet. Happened atimes, afore they had medicine and things.

[acjade]

My God.
Still in Su Zhou.... not on my computer so can't go ballistic but you and the camera belong together. Fantastic.

[acjade]

Oops! Had already let off the nuclear weapons. Where will I hide?

Love the close up of the old man's face taken from standing distance but underneath. He must have lost his teeth when still a young man.

I love photography like this... being visually not aligned I'd have taken a picture of a cloud. I also love the look of greenish growth on a statue of a person whom obviously either loved gardening or is holding a potted liily which is still to bloom. Lillies being the symbol of peace.

Perhaps the family were just wishing he'd find a perfect peace he never felt on this earth with its mortal toil or perhaps he did something in that town that deserves our rememberance and honour. They certainly honoured him.

And I think he and the the family were Jewish. If you join up the dots in the family circle you get a star of David. At least I did.

What an interesting and beloved life.