Where would you like to go?
Copyright information
© Loren Rhoads and Cemetery Travel, 2011-17. Unauthorized use or duplication of this material -- either photos or text -- without written permission from this blog’s author is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Cemetery Travel with a link to the original content. Questions? Use the Contact Me tab in the navigation bar above.Cemetery Travels Notebook: Photography by Loren Rhoads
Need a place to record your own cemetery adventures? This notebook contains photos from Cemetery Travel along with 80 blank lined pages.
Blog Stats
- 299,038 hits
Follow this blog via RSS:
Networked Blogs
Blog: Cemetery Travel Topics:cemetery, graveyards, travel Visitors
Top Posts & Pages
- Cemetery of the Week #116: Wyatt Earp's gravesite
- Cemetery of the Week #46: the Martin Luther King Jr. gravesite
- A Strange Case of Taphophilia
- Marking Fred Gwynne's Unmarked Grave with Flowers
- Cemeteries of the Week
- Cemetery of the Week #155: Waine’e Church Cemetery
- Cemetery of the Week #69: Seattle's Lake View Cemetery
- Wish You Were Here at Barnes & Noble
Cemetery Travel catagories
- Cemetery blog
- Cemetery book review
- Cemetery essay
- Cemetery event
- Cemetery how-to
- Cemetery interview
- Cemetery movie review
- Cemetery of the Week
- Cemetery poll
- Cemetery postcard
- Cemetery snapshots
- Church burial
- Death's Garden Revisited
- Facebook Cemetery Group
- Famous person's grave
- Good cemetery news
- Museum show
- Photo Challenges
- Travel query
- Wish You Were Here
Cemetery Travel tags
angels Arlington National Cemetery Bay Area cemeteries Black History bones Boston cemeteries California cemeteries cemeteries cemetery books cemetery photographs cemetery tours Cemetery Travels Notebook children's grave churchyard Civil War cemetery Colma cemetery cremation Cypress Lawn Cemetery Czech cemeteries Deaths Garden Detroit cemetery English cemeteries Facebook Florence cemetery Forest Lawn French cemeteries ghost story Green-Wood Cemetery Hawaiian cemetery Highgate Cemetery Hollywood Forever Italian cemetery Japanese cemetery Jewish cemetery Kutna Hora Lafayette Cemetery Laurel Hill Cemetery London cemetery longreads Los Angeles cemetery Manhattan cemetery Massachusetts cemeteries Metairie Cemetery Michigan cemetery military cemetery Mountain View Cemetery Mount Auburn Cemetery New Orleans cemeteries New York cemetery New York City cemetery Old City Cemetery ossuary Paris cemeteries Pennsylvania cemetery Pere Lachaise Cemetery photo of the week pioneer cemeteries postaday postaweek2011 postaweek2012 postaweek2014 presidential grave private mausoleums Protestant Cemetery Revolutionary War graveyard Rome cemetery royal tomb Sacramento cemetery San Francisco Bay Area San Francisco cemetery sculpture St. Louis #1 statuary Swan Point Cemetery Wish You Were Here
Tag Archives: angels
Cemetery of the Week #55: Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park 1370 El Camino Real Colma, California 94014-3239 Telephone: 650-550-8810 Email: info@cypresslawn.com Founded: 1892 Size: 200 acres Number of interments: Approximately 200,000 Open: Every day, 8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. or until dusk, whichever is later Of … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Journey
Thomas O. Larkin served as the only United States consul to Mexican province of Alta California during the 1840s. He was captured during California’s transition to the United States. After annexation, he became a “merchant prince” in California, speculating in … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Peaceful
Twenty years ago this month, I went to Europe for the first time. I ended up in Highgate Cemetery by accident, after finding John Gay’s Victorian Valhalla in the bookshop in Victoria Station. The sky was threatening and gray. The … Continue reading
Posted in Photo Challenges
Tagged angels, cemetery photographs, Highgate Cemetery, photo of the week, postaweek2011, postaweek2012, statuary
9 Comments
Weekly Photo Challenge: Comfort
My daughter asked me yesterday, “Why do you like cemeteries so much?” “Because I find them comforting” is what I should have said. When I go to a graveyard, the world falls away. Worries fade. I understand that all things … Continue reading
Weekly Photo Challenge: Sunset
I don’t have a photo from the night I watched sunset in the graveyard, but I can tell you a ghost story about it… Sunset was a line of blood carved into the sky as we entered the graveyard. There … Continue reading
