Acacia Memorial Park & Funeral Home, Bothell, Wa 4/17/2010

 

a rainy day visit to the acacia cemetery. 

i wasn't expecting much but wow. what great design and well i guess it should be built by the masons in 1927. the font used throughout was beautiful art deco inspired. the flower preparation rooms were amazing perfectly spotless and prepared for applying the vases to the stones. i have never really seen such a place and we missed the lakeview mausoleum complete with Japanese garden! what?!

was a good place to do some HDR- it's illuminated almost entirely by natural light- 

would love to shoot more things here....

Fani Rosenbaum memorial chapel-Herzl Memorial Park, Seattle

so here we have a cemetery stumbled on after a few trips to richmond beach .

This is the Herzl Memorial park-  which is a Jewish cemetery located at 165th and Dayton ave.

a price list can be found here and as usual it pays to be a member.

you can find a grave here.

these images are all HDR with canon camera.

i am in process of changing my film scanner (some would say upgrading by i think of it more as sidegrading as i had a great scanner but the software sucked- now i will get greta software and well....)

the chapel i took so many pics of is called the Fani Rosenbaum memorial chapel info below:

In 1937, L.N. Rosenbaum donated Fani Rosenbaum Chapel to honor his mother; Marcus Priteca, and locally and nationally recognized architect, designed the chapel with a concrete dome and acoustical qualities. 

visiting hendrix on easter sunday

Dashwood family cememtery above hellfire caves, buckinghamshire, england

 

see more images from hellfire caves and surroundings here at thislifeinruins

lakeview cemetery, capital hill, seattle

i have never been particularly into the finding the famous in cemeteries. if they are there i will look for them but initially that is not what leads me to a cemetery.

the vibe, the structures and the suspension of time are what ultimately drives me to explore any cemetery the inhabitants no more or less desirable due to fame.

so although i say this the trip to lakeview cemetery was primarily  initiated because i knew both bruce and brandon lee were interred there. 

i had a crush on brandon (post death- which is a weird crush for a teenager- conflicted ) after seeing the crow (as many a goth teen sure did.)

it's not a vast muddled cemetery in any way. and bruce and brandon are pretty much what i felt was the middle of it - perhaps with better views then most. 

we found them on a day when a man in a ford escort was there to clean the graves- he was a student of bruce lee style martial arts (Jeet Kune Do -way of the intercepting fist) and he was responsible for coming when a call was made to him saying the bruce's wife was coming to visit. Linda would be arriving sometime that afternoon. 

he talked to us for a bit before returning to his car to retrieve cleaning supplies. 

and part of me wanted to stay and watch  and wait to see Linda Lee.

but we didn't.

if only graves had periscopes from below as i am sure even the dead would appreciate the sweeping views this cemetery offers.

lakeview cemetery association

wiki

VR seattle

american cemetery, cambridge, uk