February 3, 2020
Letchworth Village‘s cemetery, like that of many state-run institutions, marks its graves with nothing but a number. No dates, no names. The state policy adopted by the Office of Mental Health is to keep burial records for state mental hospitals confidential. But this practice is dated and marked with indignity, Read more…
January 31, 2020
When I was scanning satellite maps around the former grounds of The Central Islip State Hospital, I couldn’t happen but notice this: And I knew exactly what it was. The old patient cemetery or the Potter’s Field as almost all of the buried remains are marked only with a small Read more…
January 19, 2020
For my return to Queens’ Cemetery Belt, a couple of Jewish cemeteries for a change. Compared to the dramatic often grandiose funerary art within Christian cemeteries, customs differ greatly in Jewish burials, including unadorned graves that are simple in decoration. Considering, there were some strays from tradition to photograph. Specifically, Read more…
December 28, 2019
I really wish I lived closer to Woodlawn Cemetery‘s 400 acres, the grounds of my Bronx angel hunt. It is one of my favorites in New York City. One can easily lose an entire day here. But I fine-tuned my search by hunting down the familiar angel faces I saw Read more…
December 22, 2019
There are tons of cemeteries adjacent to each other in Queens in an area called the Cemetery Belt. There are so many cemeteries in this vicinity that my visit today barely scratched the surface! My mission was to try out my new camera and familiarize myself with the area for Read more…
December 18, 2019
In the oldest cemetery on Staten Island I found another reason to enjoy graving… intricately carved death heads and winged soul effigies, the topic of this angel-ish hunt in the 5 boroughs. Typical of gravestones from the 1600 and 1700’s, these decorative features were the earliest form of funerary art Read more…
December 7, 2019
Old Calvary Cemetery is one of the first cemeteries I wandered into as a young graver. It is a dizzyingly large cemetery with endless angels, 3 million about. That’s right–its 365 acres has the most interments in the entire country. And many of my pictures will show just how jam-packed Read more…
November 13, 2019
A brief jaunt in East Patchogue, Long Island would have food, fun and photographs. To follow, some highlights of the area… if you happen to like vegan food, nature and cemeteries like me. Door dashed my breakfast because who the heck wants to get dressed and jump in the car Read more…
November 2, 2019
After some errands I decided the light was too perfect to resist going to Green-Wood Cemetery. This being only the second time photographing the cemetery using manual settings, I gave myself the assignment of taking lady portraits. Close up and intimate on their grief. The cemetery was far too busy Read more…
October 20, 2019
{It’s My Party 🎉, Part 3} Of course there is a historic rural cemetery on my list! Home to the devastatingly wicked Haserot Angel, Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland has been on the very top of my list for quite some time. I’ve been to many cemeteries and this one has Read more…
October 13, 2019
As soon as my friend started describing his new seasonal side gig, terrorizing people at an old Victorian mansion on Staten Island, I knew he was referring to the Kreischer House. And I knew I’d now get to go inside the beautiful home I spied this summer. Dead By Dawn, Read more…
September 30, 2019
Another cemetery on my list gets checked off during my stay in Buffalo–Forest Lawn Cemetery. I explored most of its 269 acres on a brisk fall morning. Here is what I saw. Aspiration. She is he reason for Forest Lawn being on my list. Ever since I saw her in Read more…
September 19, 2019
Back to School means Back to Green-Wood Cemetery. But this season, my 200 mm telephoto lens. Now my zoom can reach the pained expressions close to the heavens—a world of difference from my previous shoots in auto focus. What a fool I was! Camera confident now, I was bummed to Read more…
August 28, 2019
On my first official day heading north, I had a fantastic breakfast in the Hourglass District of Orlando, Florida. You know places like this: bright murals, great fonts, food halls with social spaces… vegan options. Apparently Hourglass is an “it” place. So in one spot I can get my coconut Read more…
August 11, 2019
During Cemetery Season (proper), I visited the Riverside Cemetery in Waterbury, Connecticut but couldn’t drive past the entrance due to ice and snow hazards. Enchanted by the robed mourning woman, I pledged I’d return. And so I did. Because I am a woman of my word. She would prove to Read more…
May 19, 2019
That which is not fed… dies. So keep feeding what you wish to grow. 🌱 A simple truth I have to remind myself of on occasion as I can sometimes feed the wrong things with all my nourishing goodies. But I have a symbiotic relationship with Inspiration ( “her” ) Read more…
May 2, 2019
With two days of state exams and an awesome testing schedule, I spent my back-to-back free periods in my favorite place: Green-Wood Cemetery. It is crazy to think I first set foot into its grounds only a year ago. This time, peak flowering for its gorgeous trees would make it Read more…
April 23, 2019
Terlingua is one of the coolest places I’ve ever been. So I’ll let the pictures show you why. It’s “up my alley” (as my Dad says) in so many ways. My accommodations… a tipi at Buzzard’s Roost. My tipi: La Luna Inside, way too much animal for a vegan. The Read more…
April 8, 2019
I like to take the long way home… and find things to see, find things to eat. Like the vegan tofu “wings” from Bullfrog Brewery. Those were from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. On the see list, this Pink House in Wellsville, New York. The ornate Victorian home has had a bit of Read more…
April 3, 2019
This is where Spring starts: as a burst of bright on the end of a drab brown branch. In-between my days’ other times I found these sparks in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and Prospect Park. Cherished indicators of impending beauty… Blow a kiss to Spring! More Green-wood…
March 27, 2019
I’m breaking in my new lens! My Rokinon 12mm F2.8 Ultra Wide Fisheye Lens captures a ton more than my other lens. Just look: On the left, my old lens (Tamron 18-200mm) and on the right, the Rokinon, taken from the same cushion on my couch. That’s the fish eye. Read more…
February 24, 2019
Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre rural cemetery in Washington DC with some very haunting sculptures. With so many outstanding works registered with the Smithsonian’s Save Outdoor Sculpture initiative, it would be foolish to think that I wouldn’t drive the hour south from Baltimore to see some the gorgeous aged Read more…
February 20, 2019
I want to apologize. Perhaps you came here to my blog to look at food, but all you keep seeing is mournful angels aged to a bright turquoise. And boy (sorrynotsorry) there will be a lot more of that in this post about Albany Rural Cemetery, a gorgeous sprawl of 467 Read more…
February 19, 2019
My only full day in Vermont would be full of trudging about in the snow… which is the only way to do Vermont in the winter. After staying in Barre overnight, I took advantage of my locale by throwing in a early morning stop at a unique tourist attraction, Barre’s Read more…
February 18, 2019
In Montpelier, Vermont’s Green Mount Cemetery upon local businessman Hubbard’s gravesite is a sculpture entitled Thanatos, the Greek word for death. Despite winter-related odds, I would see him. In fact it was only him that had me continuing north in the whipping snow to the gates of the unplowed cemetery. Read more…
February 17, 2019
The New England is so rich with history… being the whole birthplace of the American Revolution and all. And when one leaves Brooklyn at the crack of dawn, a time when the Brooklyn Queens Expressway is not a killjoy, you can get North swiftly. So swiftly that you’ll have hours Read more…
