There is an old cemetery in our woods. It's a special place to me and one I visit frequently. Every time I'm there, I think about the hardships the settlers of long ago Vermont endured and of those who died way too soon. Yesterday was cold and gray with snow in the forecast (it didn't snow)so I bundled up in hat and jacket and set out to remember those who went before.
Last time I photographed the graves for you, it was December and snow covered the smallest graves.
Today, Logan and I walk through one of our lower pastures. I always enjoy seeing the open farm land in the distance.
The trees are vibrant.
At the cemetery. A grave of a young man who lived for only 16 years.
Some of the other headstones.
The town maintains the cemetery and all of the headstones have been photographed and sketched for the historical archives.
Leaving the cemetery and headed back into our woods.
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Your colors are just gorgeous! Things are just starting to turn around our area and we have a few weeks before we'll hit peak color. It is sad to think of how hard life must have been back in the 1800's for the settlers there.
Lovely photography! I especially like the fall colors against the sky! Great!
I got goosebumps when I saw the young boy's grave, only 16, very sad... I couldn't imagine how hard it was to live back then. I thought of Red Pine Mountain last night because the weather man said northern Vermont was at it's peak for fall colors!
I love the colors. Our changes haven't happened here quite yet but I am awaiting them! I always seem to be drawn to the baby or young childrens' graves. Those are the ones I bend to look at for some reason. Last year my daughter kept asking how old were they? I wanted to lie several times but I told her 3 or 2...and explained a little bit without scaring her. :)
What a beautiful walk you took us on today!
I always feel very sad to see the tiny stones of babes, or mothers that might have died in childbirth and it makes me thankful for modern medicine!
Happy First Day of October!☺
I love walking through old cemeteries. A high school history teacher taught me how to learn the history of an area just by wandering through a cemetery.
It sure seemed weird to see that snow, it's hard to believe it will be back soon!
Be well ~Andrea~
The colors of fall...beautiful. Having an old cemetery on your land is also interesting...very old graves, so much history...quite a special place you have there. I would be one to visit the graves often too, photograph them and examine them...and wonder about the people who reside in them. With my fascination with spirits/ghosts I would spend a lot of time looking for "signs" too. ;>)
The fall trees are gorgeous. I do like the first photo of the cemetery in snow with the woods in the background. There is something very peaceful and beautiful about the entire scene.
The fall trees are gorgeous. I do like the first photo of the cemetery in snow with the woods in the background. There is something very peaceful and beautiful about the entire scene.
I am so glad I have gotten the very special privilage to get to walk upon Red Pine Mountain. I have loved getting to know the lay of the land, the snow in the forrest and to meet those silent watchful tombstones.
Thank you very much!
Linda
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Cemeteries always put me at peace. I guess it's because when I grew up in the city, it was cemeteries that were the only places that had large nature areas.
beautiful shots of the gravestones... love them... and congrats on your win from the Bunny room... way to go
I can never get enough of your beautiful pictures!! Thank you
There is something special about reading tombstones. Seriously, I enjoy it as if looking back in time.
Amazing pictures today Red!!! Gorgeous colors and kind of spooky Halloween like visit to the graves. Life was so perilous when those folks were here...
Thanks for including us on your walk thru the fields and the old cemetery, the colors are beautiful. How nice to have all that history nearby, makes you wonder what their life was like so long ago.
Some sobering and thought provoking images. However we must all lay to rest at some point, and that is a beautiful location for a last stop.
-Luke Sidewalker
I really like this post! That cemetery looks almost exactly like the one I photographed a couple of months ago. To think of the disease and accidents that took lives too soon, and the fact that there was no preventative medicine either. I'm sure people didn't even know if they had high blood pressure or diabetes. I have great respect for our ancestors!
Love the colours! And the shots of the cemetery - very poignant.
Have seen quite a few of these in the country. I've heard so many ghost stories about what happens at night at some of them......to this day spooks me....I know Funny.
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Sunny today :) here
these photos are breathtaking! i love them!
i also love cemeteries, old ones especially. it's as if you can feel the overwhelming love there. sometimes i read the stones and feel sad that all that's left of these people are names etched in stone. we will probably never "know" them. it makes me ponder.
I feel the need to move farther north...I'm in southwest NH. Old cemetaries are so interesting. I have linked to your blog.
Fabulous colors! But snow, already?? I'm not ready for it!
Your so sweet to write about me on your blog. I really appreciate it, you couldnt be more kind.
Oh, I jsut love your places and the fact that you have such a history on yournproperty. Pioneer graveyards are so neat. And I too, would take pause in heart, the lives, the hardships and loves they lead.
Oh, to walk your woods..heavenly, to be sure!
Kacy
The colors on the trees are fantastic! You are so lucky to live where you do. Thank you for sharing these pictures with us.
Our trees are not so beautiful yet. Very soon. We have a cemetery right next door to us also. Maybe sometime I'll have to share the photos. :O)
I love to walk in cemetaries, wierd me, but intriquing to see how people are remembered. I have done much thinking in cemetaries!and photographed many around the world! like I said weird me!
I'm sure I would be a leaf peeper too, but I hope I would not mess up traffic. Glorious colors and beautiful photographs! I feel that connection also with the pioneers who settled the land. I think about my ancestors who moved slowly across the country and who are buried in cemeteries like yours. I wish I could visit them and I appreciate visiting your old cemetery. Thank you! And thank you for following my blog.
I, too love old cemeteries; macabre or not, it's history and recognition of lives long forgotten.
The very best family reunion I have ever attended was one of a long-gone in-law's in-laws: the dinner was served on make-shift tables at the family cemetery! The county had recently passed a law forbidding burial on private property, so the family knew none of the remaining members would be joining their loved ones in that cemetery, and they decided to join them for a party! It was a party full of happiness and memories, and no ghosts interrupted to say "BOO!"
I always find it fascinating to read the inscriptions on old gravestones. I like the photos of the snowy graveyard. If we ever get any show here I'll have to take a few myself :-)
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