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Paddington-Owl In reply to ??? [2009-10-31 12:58:58 +0000 UTC]

Haunting and beautiful. I love the careful detail and the dramatic feel to the drawing.

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pyrrhite In reply to Paddington-Owl [2009-10-31 16:08:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks--I really love old cemeteries, of course here in New England that means a couple centuries---possibly a little different than the UK...

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Paddington-Owl In reply to pyrrhite [2009-10-31 18:30:21 +0000 UTC]

A pleasure. Yes, our cemeteries are little different. Each grave sits upon another stretching back an average of 900 years in most. There are very few 'new' cemeteries, but in some cases new developments sit above graveyards, for example the new Gatwick airport runway, will demolish church land in a village call Charlwood.

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pyrrhite In reply to Paddington-Owl [2009-10-31 19:53:30 +0000 UTC]

Well in New England 'old' is 200-300 years, in the Midwest US it's 100 or even less...all relative, but I think it must be fascinating to live in a landscape with history a thousand years old.
Development doesn't respect much, does it?

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Paddington-Owl In reply to pyrrhite [2009-11-01 12:25:03 +0000 UTC]

No it doesn't sadly. It is mind-blowing really, when you consider the age of each village, London itself has been around since Roman times. Somewhere though, there probably an ancestor of yours buried.

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pyrrhite In reply to Aye-Luv-Dragons [2009-08-08 00:52:06 +0000 UTC]

thanks again--I really do love old cemeteries!

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Aye-Luv-Dragons In reply to pyrrhite [2009-08-08 02:27:50 +0000 UTC]

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