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Sunday Scenes
Saturday, June 26, 2010 at 11:44PM I love to take pictures of churches and their grounds, and even the streets they sit on.
A few weeks ago I took these shots of Washington Street Methodist Church in downtown Columbia, South Carolina.
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Parking meters stand a few feet from on-street tombstones:
Old school, very cool, cast-iron (and mysteriously cracked) sidewalk-embedded signpost:
One of the church's early pastors founded a mission to South Carolina slaves:
A smallish obelisk marks the grave of eighteen-year-old Leon Senn:
Dappled shade decorates the all-brick building on the Marion Street side:
Leon's touching epitaph includes Scripture from the fourteenth verse of First Thessalonians chapter four:
Charming how the spires kiss the summer sky:
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Happy Sunday!
Reader Comments (6)
Love the photos Jennifer...Especially the dappled chuch in sunlight, Nice!!
Happy Sunday to you sweetheart!
hughugs
Great pictures as always.
Such lovely scenes! Thank you for sharing!
I love your photos, and your post re taphophile, Recently two friends and I visited the Hollywood Cemetery in Virginia, my friends were eager to take many, many pictures, I just couldn't, I don't know what it was or is, but I always feel like I invading the peace of the person resting there. I took feel a peace in a cemetery, I often spend many hours in the garden as it were where my dad is buried but somehow a photo just doesn't happen. Am I nuts?
@ Donna ... dappling is always delightful! Happy Sunday to you too!
@ Debbie ... thanks, luv.
@ Donna M. ... thanks and you're welcome!
@ Irene ... I want to visit the Hollywood Cemetery! I've looked at it via Google Earth many times, and read accounts of the many famous graves there. I know what you mean about feeling as though you may be invading privacy. You're not nuts. However, I feel that if you are respectful and duly reverent, not trampling the graves or being loud or disruptive, and if your photos shed light on the culture and time in which we live and in which our forbears lived, and if you are careful to use the photos in a respectful manner, that taking pictures in cemeteries can be a very vivid way of paying tribute to the lives of the deceased. The beauty of cemeteries is what I love ... and the peace. Not the sadness. I've never seen my father's grave and I'd like to someday, but I'd be happy to see a picture of it. When we were at Bonaventure Cemetery recently I wanted to take some pictures of a particularly beautiful plot. But some mourners were there, obviously grieving a departed relative, and I asked the lady if she minded my being there. She said she'd rather I not take a picture and so of course I didn't. I said God bless you, and moved on. I think people understand the fascination. I hope people take pictures of my grave someday, LOL ... and think something nice about what is written there, and what I might have been like.
How I do go on.
Mrs. Weber,
You have a good eye. You are what they call "a natural". Great photos! (there's a difference between a photo and a picture, if you know what I mean ;)