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Across the Fence:  Welcome to the Chloride cemetery  |
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ranchetta
True Blue Farmgirl
318 Posts
carol
Marysville
Wahington
USA
318 Posts |
 Posted - Mar 19 2009 : 5:55:03 PM
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This was one of the saddest cemeteries I've seen. Guess part of it was just the countryside being so desolate and everything seemed just scattered around. I did take some good pictures. Visit my blog if you're up to another trip to Chloride and tell me what you think.
http://curlywillowsranch.blogspot.com/
http://alteredshots.blogspot.com/ |
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
4687 Posts |
Posted - Mar 19 2009 : 5:56:34 PM
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How interesting!! I love to look around cemetaries and pay my respect to all the people there. It is always interesting what people leave or how they are buried. Thanks for sharing!!
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
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kpaints
True Blue Farmgirl
1564 Posts
karen
cheney
wa
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Lainey
True Blue Farmgirl
2401 Posts
Elaine
Waco
Kentucky
USA
2401 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 08:28:03 AM
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That was sad. I looked at your other photos from trips in Arizona, very good shots and interesting too. I've never been out west but would love to someday.
Farmgirl Sister #25
http://countrygirldreams.blogspot.com/
An Angel says, 'Never borrow from the future. If you worry about what may happen tomorrow and it doesn't happen, you have worried in vain. Even if it does happen, you have to worry twice.' |
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Diane B Carter
True Blue Farmgirl
1270 Posts
Diane
Blasdell
N.Y.
USA
1270 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 08:48:27 AM
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I thought some of the plots were very cool. I love the rocks around them, I think people place what they can and what the person likes. I wanted to be creamated and throwen in my gardens. But my DH purchased 2 wall spaces. So my ashes will go in a 5x8 inch x ?? that you can't put flowers on. I don't plan on sticking around my burial site anyway. I'll be trying to explain to God why he should let me into heaven.
Hope all your days are Sunnydays.
dianebcarterhotmailcom.blogspot.com |
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wild daisy
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Madelynne
Billings
Montana
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 10:50:17 AM
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Reminds me of my families cemetery in Paskenta California. I only visited in once in the early 1970's. I was about 12 years old. One of the neighbors mentioned to us to watch out for rattlesnakes hanging down from the trees. It was very rustic like your pictures but a look back in history. Thanks for the memories.
Madelynne
johnandmadelynne.blogspot.com |
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harmonyfarm
True Blue Farmgirl
785 Posts
Debbie
Southeastern
Ohio
USA
785 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 12:52:26 PM
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Carol.....nothing fancy about that cemetary is there? It reminded me of a cemetary that homeless people would bury "their own" and use whatever available to mark that they were even here....
If I'm not mistaken, I think the plate border was used to try to keep an invasive plant from spreading...I did the same thing once using LP Records...remember those? It worked!
Debbie
"If you can't find the time to do it right...how will you find the time to do it over" |
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 1:04:16 PM
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| The cemetery looks like it's decorated very much in the same style as the people's yards in Chloride (from your other pics). I'm curious, why did the town seem fun to you and the cemetery sad? Are the people who live in the town happy, or does it have that sullen, dying-town feeling that so many small towns have around here? |
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ranchetta
True Blue Farmgirl
318 Posts
carol
Marysville
Wahington
USA
318 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2009 : 4:29:01 PM
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Amie C.......
The town of Chloride has a Restaurant named "Yesterdays" that used to be an old stagecoach building. There is a one man band that plays every evening (he looks like Kenny Rogers!). He starts playing about 7:00 PM and you would not believe how many of the snowbirds that live in the park there in the winter come and dance (along with the other locals)! The music is fun 60's 70's 80' music and easy to dance to for us "old folk" since those were our dancin' years!!!!! So after about 2 to 3 hours of wild dancing, happy shouting, and having a ball (and no one is a stranger)....everything shuts down by about 10 PM and I'm sure everyone's in bed immediately thereafter!!!!! (That is the fun part!) LOL
Debbie...
How funny...yes, I rememberthose LP's (then the tape decks!!!!). Just celebrated my 59th B.D. this March! You could be right about those plates but they're just so placed at random and what's going to invade the bed, LOL.
Diane..
Yes, I definitely want to be cremated and sprinkled in my flower garden. I put the word out that I'll come back to haunt if this doesn't happen!!!!
Thanks for all your comments!
http://curlywillowsranch.blogspot.com/
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Linda Houston
True Blue Farmgirl
538 Posts
Linda
Lake Charles
Louisiana
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 03:23:12 AM
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The cemetery Is very different. I have never one quite like it. All of the pictures on your blog are good. I did not know what the plates were about....I figured out some type of border, but I would have never thought to use plates or LP records.
I love the West and after seeing your pictures I feel a "revisit" coming on.
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Bellepepper
True Blue Farmgirl
1207 Posts
Belle
Coffeyville
KS
USA
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Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 08:04:35 AM
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| Carol, loved your blog. I have visited the SouthWest several times and see something new (new to me) every trip. After seeing your pics, will have to make another visit. Would love to visit the cemetary. Looks like history laying all over the place. Our little cemetary where all my grandparents and parents are buried has a sign at the gate telling you what all you CAN'T put on or around the graves. Just head stones. We can put out flowers but just on Memorial day, then two weeks later they pick them up and trash them. Would love to decorate with rocks, fence or maybe even plates. Wasn't that a hoot? Loved it. Will also look for a duck without a head for my yard. |
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Nancy Gartenman
True Blue Farmgirl
9093 Posts
Nancy
West Seneca
New York
USA
9093 Posts |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 08:34:48 AM
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I went on GOOGLE, there is lots of info on the cemetery. Even a list of who is buried there.
www.Nancy-Jo.blogspot.com |
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ranchetta
True Blue Farmgirl
318 Posts
carol
Marysville
Wahington
USA
318 Posts |
Posted - Mar 22 2009 : 1:49:32 PM
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Linda.....Thanks for the compliment on my pictures...I DO love taking them!
Belle....I'm glad you visited...good luck on finding that special duck for your yard!!!
Nancy Jo...I'll check out some sites on Google...sounds like you found an informative one.
http://curlywillowsranch.blogspot.com/
http://alteredshots.blogspot.com/ |
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