friday is date night

[low_delta]

We saw old things tonight.


I just discovered a cemetery near our house, that I had been unaware of, so we drove over to have a look. Then we drove into Cedarburg to have a short walk, and maybe a drink.



After we saw the Lincoln, we went to a brew pub to have a brew (just one, and Cyn had it). The place is in the basement of an old mill. To get into the bar, you have to walk across a bridge over the millrace. The water pours out of what used to house the turbine that generated the power. Cyn has a bit of a phobia of dark pools of water, especially concrete ones. This is a fairly dank place, and we were there at dusk, so it was dark too. It's a ten-second exposure. It's kinda blurry, but I didn't want to scare Cyn, so it's behind the cut.

Comments

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

See, those are what we call upright markers, and most around here don't allow those any more. Of course, more and more in this area cemeteries are becoming privately owned, and run by corporations.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

They don't allow them? Why, because they have to mow around them? Lame. A lot of places disallow anthing on the ground besides the stones, but this one had quite a lot of flowers planted. I was surprised at how well tended it is.

Which ones are disallowing them, the private ones?

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

Most cemeteries, not just the private ones. Upright stones are still allowed in some older parts of city cemeteries,and in old church cemeteries, but you can't rely on those old cemeteries to be taken care of. Most corporate owned or large cemeteries (I am thinking of the ones in Savannah) don't allow anything that cannot be run over with a lawn mower. It has to be flat against the ground, and if you want a coping, it has to be a ground level too.. so nobody has to break out a weedeater to keep it neat.

There is a larger and larger movement to establish family cemeteries on private land, so there aren't the restrictions to stones.. but that takes a bit of red tape paperwork, and they have to be on privately owned family land, and there is no city entity to care for them. Still, it can be done.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's kinda sad, I think, that they're all driven by money so much that people can't have even the simple monuments they want. But I guess there's not as much money down there as there is up here.

[raven-nest.livejournal.com]

That is true in all things.