Friday My Town: Water in Motion

 

A small waterfall contributing to soothing sounds
of Nature in our largest (and newest) cemetery.

 

The little lake, on this particular day, was NOT in motion…

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Shadow Shot Sunday–Gate

 

New gates at the town’s oldest cemetery (St. Ansgar)

Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Shadow Shot Sunday: Sun Cross

Visiting a cemetery, my eyes fell on this unusual old grave cross casting a distinct shadow on the ground. I can’t recall having seen this exact shape of sun cross before.

For Shadow Shot Sunday 2

PS. Gemma suggested in a comment I should also link this post to Taphophile Tragics, so why not… (The location is Fristad, Västergötland, Sweden)

Splash of Colour

Taking a walk across the cemetery close to where I live yesterday, I found two newly planted, wonderfully colourful flowerbeds as promise of more colour soon to come.

Friday My Town: Abandoned / Neglected

▲ Above: Rusting iron fence around an old grave

▼ Below: Not “neglected”, but abandoned for the sake of “progress”…

▲ A year ago I took this photo of an old wooden house with outbuilding across the street from a modern supermarket. (1.3.2011) Still people living there then I think, but I knew there were building plans for the area around it, and I was wondering whether the old house would be spared or not.

▲ ▲ 10.3.2012 – Obviously NOT!

24.3.2012 – Not a trace left!

30.3.2012 = today
The first of the new apartment buildings is rising

Friday My Town Shoot Out

Friday My Town – Wood, Metal, Stone

Scavenger Hunt: Wood, Metal, Stone.

I did not have to go far for this scavenger hunt, only to the nearby cemetery. Plenty of big old trees (wood). Metal fences and gates. Grave stones, and a stone wall.

 

Friday My Town Shoot Out – Scavenger Hunt – Wood, Metal, Stone

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Friday My Town: Stairs

‘Up and down’ was one of the themes included in the local photo
marathon I took part in a few weeks ago… So I took a number of
shots of these spiral stairs outside a building. We were only allowed
to submit one photo per theme though, so the collage was made later!

 

  

A waterfall and a narrow set of stairs running down/up
the same hill in a large modern cemetery park.

 

At this spot in the river, the water descends down ‘stairs’ as well.

To see more stairs … ‘going up, coming down, from behind’ …
go to My Town – Mr Linky!

Friday My Town: Shooter’s Choice

The Friday My Town theme this week is Shooter’s Choice:
“Anything goes as long as it showcases your town.”

Can a walk around an old cemetery be said to showcase a town?!

If you doubt it – come along and see for yourself…

On a couple of occasions each summer an organized cemetery walk slash open air theatre takes place. These walks have become very popular and gather lots of spectators. This summer it took place on the cemetery closest to where I live. I missed the first “show” a few weeks ago, but luckily I was able to join when they gave a repeat performance last week.

This year they built the action around the fact that Borås is an old textile industry town.

So it all started with a seamstress in a textile factory, working on a special dress. 

Then we had to make way for the arrival of a horse and carriage.

Fabrics were being collected, but the poor seamstress had not yet finished her dress, which was a special order for a special person and special occasion. So she was told she’d have to deliver that in person.

The director of one of the first famous textile industries came to inspect the work at his factory. The scene was set at his grave.

The founder of another famous company arrived by car; and the two gentlemen spent a while discussing different views of how best to run a factory and both be efficient and keep the workers happy.

Then the seamstress had to go off and deliver that dress, and we all followed her along.

On her way she met more persons from the past.

Like a nurse who took the initiative to build a children’s hospital.

Finally we arrived at a place where they were shooting a movie, and were told we all needed to be really silent – because it was a silent movie… haha. This was near the grave of someone who went to America and became a Hollywood film star back in the early days of silent movies – unfortunately I forget her name now!

(Did they have mobile phones in the early 1900’s? )

Anyway, it was for this movie star that the dress was made which was “the red thread” of the story… binding all those different scenes together. But in the end, of course the Film Star didn’t want the dress! Isn’t that just typical…!

* The End *

 

Hare

I see this hare every now and then around where I live and in the old cemetery close by. Usually it’s hard to get close enough to get a good photo, but today he seemed lost in contemplation for a moment, and I managed to zoom him in.

There are also wild rabbits living in a railway bank nearby, and I saw several of those today as well. But they were more alert and too quick for me.

The hare is much bigger than the rabbits. I think he’s a ‘loner’. In the daytime I’ve often seen him in the cemetery; at night I sometimes see him from my window, grazing on the lawn below, when it’s quiet and no people around. In the winter, I watched him digging into the snow to get at the grass buried beneath.

Shadow Shot Sunday: Seeing the Light

 

This is a grave monument at an old cemetery close to where I live.
I must have walked past it many times without noticing it at all.
Until one day the light happened to be “just right”…

 

Shadow Shot Sunday