Needing to get out of the house the other day, and wanting to be outside even though it was close to 100 degrees, I decided to go to Bonaventure Cemetery. It is one of 80 cemeteries in Chatham County (Savannah area) and has been used since 1794. It was featured in the movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil". (Side note: they don't sell indivdual plots, only family plots (for 6-12 people) for a minimum of $4810 as of this writing.)
Anyway, all that aside.....it is heavily shaded by live oaks and on the Wilmington River so it is pleasant even on hot summer days.
I took a lot of pictures and a lot of them were crap, but here are some of the more interesting ones.
The Bell family arch.
This urn shows a common situation with the marble here. The most exposed ridges are blinding white but the nooks are quite dirty. 
I did not see any stones from the 1700s but I did see quite a few from the 1800's including these from the mid to late 1800s.
So detailed!
I liked this one (except for the creepy dead eyes) and so I had a little fun in photoshop.
3 comments:
How did you get her to stand up and put on that red dress?
I applaud your work and think you are clever for being able to photoshop the red dress. Very nice :)
John Bryant, you were the narrator in "Our Town", you know how them "graveyard people" are!!! You know that saying "they shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye"!! Today stone, tomorrow all dressed up to go away, like Conway Twitty said, "looks the best he'd seen her in years". You know, graveyards can, in a sorta weird and erie way, be very interesting and educational. The pictures looked like they turned out very good to me. On one of those stones, was the name on the left stone "Herman Harm"? That'd be scarey!
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