Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, green-wood cemetery, photography, tree graffiti on August 7, 2012| Leave a Comment »
What you can make out is “RIP.” The rest of the letters might have once said “Big Al,” but you can’t be sure. Green-Wood is huge, and security can’t reach everywhere, but this defacement of a tree stands out. I want to go back in time, slap the knife from the hooligan’s hand and ask him, for we know it’s a him, “Does this really make you feel better?”
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, fake flowers, green-wood cemetery, photography, veteran's day on December 5, 2011| 1 Comment »
That’s a patriotic carnation, left on a grave for Veteran’s Day, that is now among the leaves at Green-Wood Cemetery.
Posted in art & photography, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, cemetery statue, green-wood, photography on November 17, 2011| Leave a Comment »
Time and the elements have not been kind to the statues at Green-Wood Cemetery, the decay can also be beautiful.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, green-wood cemetery, photography on November 29, 2009| 1 Comment »
I’m coming to appreciate Green-Wood Cemetery as an urban oasis; it’s quiet and serene. You can take a walk there, as I did the other day, and not pass another person other than the guard at the gate.
Posted in Misc, tagged brooklyn, brooklyn cemetery, green-wood cemetery, headstones, park slope south, photography, seventh ave on September 30, 2009| 1 Comment »
This corner of Green-Wood Cemetery, where 20th Street meets Seventh Avenue, undulates every which way. The hill rises steeply from the street; all in all, it’s an unkind environment for headstones.
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