Monday 8 February 2010: North Leith Graveyard

Had the weekend off blipping. Other things on my mind.

I think Cyclops finds my interest in graveyards mystifying, but I do enjoy a good wander round an old burial ground on occasion to look at the gravestones and think about who the people might have been.

Today, Acronymphomania, H (still to post her first blip) and I took a walk down the Water of Leith to the Shore to get some sandwiches from Fleurs.

Acronymphomania blipped some happy dogs, and this is what I chose!

Canon PowerShot SX200 IS : f/4.0 : 1/100" : 5mm : ISO 200

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Graveyard Grave stone Leith Edinburgh Water of Leith North Leith Graveyard

Comments

1. I'm glad I am not the only one who loves a graveyard.
   
   When I need to think thats where I go, a nice old graveyard. Reading between the lines and getting family stories, the really sad ones where they've had maybe 8 children and outlived them all. Or the monied families with large tombs with plenty of space for names but hardly any interred.
   
   And I have to admit I have been known to have a good cry when I find those small markers, I can't bear it.
   
   
   And yet graveyards always draw me in, even as a child (I think my parents thought I was odd)

   ~ Abzquine

2. Aye, a wee graveyard wander always comes up trumps

   ~ justsitting

3. This is the graveyard I was taken to on a school excursion when I was in P7 many many many years back. We did crayon rubbings of the graves many a pirate grave there. At the time I didnt think anything of it but now what a crazy curriculum my school had back then!

   ~ queenie

4. Ah....they were pirate graves!

   ~ acronymphomania

5. are they really pirate graves and not just skulls and cross bones?
   
   I used to think there were hundreds of pirates when I was a kid :-s lol

   ~ Abzquine

6. Cemeteries make ideal subjects for blipping...go to the old Dean Cemetery for some opportunities to take some really interesting shots.

   ~ zedmclong

7. I visited a huge cemetery for my hundredth blip on Friday! I like this a lot.

   ~ superrstine

8. I love taking photos in graveyards too. Not for the reason A thinks. ;)

   ~ sweetpotatosky

9. Matches your mood yesterday nicely...

   ~ cyclops