Happy National Raspberry Cake Day!
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Thirty Days of Photographs: Death
Some of my sources tell me that today is National Raspberry Cake Day, other sources say it won't be until July 31. Either way, I can't really risk ruining National Raspberry Cake Day by thinking about death, which is why you're not getting a long philosophical post about our precious mortality or about loved ones lost. In the interest of this project, though, I did drive by the cemetery on my way home from work today and took a picture for you.
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Frankly, I find cemeteries to be calming and beautiful places. I usually visit the local cemetery when I travel just to check it out. I don't think I've ever had a Raspberry Cake much less celebrated a day for one. That's a very nice shot of a pretty and restful place.
ReplyDeleteI like this picutre Ziva,I like the way the one stone is leaning toward the other, and the crispness of them in contrast to the fuzzyness of the surrounding plants and trees. Proof that death is cold and hard.
ReplyDeleteI love this picture! I love reading headstones, they're fascinating....what does it say on those, do you know?
ReplyDeleteThis might sound a little weird, but I like cemeteries. They never seem like places of death to me, but places of life. Some of it has to do with the landscaping, which is usually fairly lush, as it is in this photograph. But it's also got something to do with the preservation of the memories of a person's life, even it it's only a name and some dates.
ReplyDeleteI love what you did with this photograph, Ziva -- how you managed to isolate these two stones from the rest of the cemetery. They look peaceful, almost loving, as if there's a couple buried here beneath the tree, loving one another for eternity.
Oh, and happy National Raspberry Cake Day! I love raspberries.
That looks like a big cemetery. I wonder how many dead people are there? I reckon all of them.
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ReplyDeleteOh, this was perfect! It almost looks like a 'wedding' (the husband on the right and the wife on the left), uniting in death as they did in life - and the flowers in the background of the stone on the right adds to that effect, like a bride's headdress.
ReplyDeleteI think they should have a raspberry cake to celebrate their 'reunion'.
Is raspberry cake anything like Black Forest cake? I love raspberries and I love Black Forest cake. To die for!
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I think I see an orb. Your picture makes the cemetery look inviting. "Bring out the dead!" I like reading headstones that sound like law firms.
ReplyDeleteHah, headstones that sound like law firms!
ReplyDeleteIt's a very inviting cemetery. Sort of. If you like dead people all lined up in neat rows.
That's actually a very sweet, if somewhat morbid, picture you paint with the husband and wife..
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what Black Forest cake is, is it anything like raspberry cake?
"I see a very large psychotherapy bill in your future."
ReplyDeleteI'm fairly sure they're all dead. I didn't check, though. Someone probably should.
ReplyDeleteIn Finland they usually just put the name and date of birth and date of passing on the headstones. Less is more, we like to say. I just hope that doesn't apply to the depth of the graves, too.....
ReplyDeleteYou're so right, death is cold and hard and it awaits us all. Here's to hoping we'll be too drunk to care when it does.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. I don't mind cemeteries either, I think they're often very beautiful, especially the old ones.
ReplyDeleteNothing you say sounds weird anymore, Mike, we're way past that. Cemeteries are beautiful, and I like to walk around and look at the headstones. I always get a little sad when there are stones without flowers or candles that no one seems to be taking care of. I hope I'll have someone to put fresh flowers on my grave when I go. Preferably black ones.
ReplyDeleteIt's the zombie thing that I probably inherited from Quirks and Nicky, I think.
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I love raspberries but not sure what raspberry cake is. A Black Forest cake is a three layer German chocolate cake infused with a cherry liqueur (some people use rum), layered with cherries and whipped cream, finished off with a German chocolate icing, whipped cream and whole fresh cherries. It's to die for, I tell ya!
Black flowers? And you think I'm morbid?
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I prefer my relative in neat rows, else one would have to be playing "Twister" to visit them all at once.
ReplyDeleteThat's both disturbing and hilarious at the same time!
ReplyDeleteYou're not sure what a raspberry cake is? I don't understand this obsession with giving cakes specific names. For me a raspberry cake is any cake with raspberries in it. And now I want one... I love raspberries!
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