Rest in Peace?

First off, I have a website update! I've updated the Monthly Features gallery under the Featured tab. Now it's got eight new pictures from a couple of winters ago. You'll recognize them as being from the Missouri Botanical Gardens. I'll keep adding more to the gallery as I take them this winter so be sure to check back often!

Now, on to the photo update. My final for my Digital Photography class is coming up on Thursday so I've been diligently working on that the past couple of weeks. I decided to do my final project on gravestones and cemetery art. Well, while printing my photos last week, I realized that I was three photos short of the designated twelve photos needed for the portfolio book I was doing. So that meant one thing: Photo Excursion!

I headed out to an older cemetery called Forever Oak in the Kirkwood/Meacham Park area last Saturday. Now, usually, one would think of a cemetery as a peaceful resting place for those loved ones who have departed this Earth before us. Well, some of Forever Oak is very peaceful and quiet, but some of it...not so much. If you check out the shot on the left (click it to make it bigger) titled Rest in Peace? you'll notice highway traffic in the background. I mentioned the cemetery was in Kirkwood and this section of the cemetery is where the Kirkwood family is buried. You'd think that they'd want a more peaceful spot for the founders of their city. Rest in Peace, indeed.