Holy Cross, part 2

[aceofkittens]

Yesterday, I thought I'd elevate this LJ a little from its typical "whining and moaning" content, by posting about my walks in Holy Cross Cemetery: Read all about it!

Today, as promised, I'm posting pictures!



So, this is the entrance. People seem to drive in and out of this cemetery at crazy speeds. I keep waiting to get hit by a car. How ironic would that be! Except of course, I am not Catholic.




Doesn't this picture look ominous? I totally thought it was going to rain yesterday. (It didn't.) I haven't gotten any closer than that to the building, because it's usually full of mourners/funerals.




This is pretty typical. The green turf with flowers covers the pyramid of dirt. Note the blue "outer coffin" sitting on top of slats. I think this definitely is how they lower the real coffin in. I should have paid more attention to Six Feet Under.




These are everywhere. Note the uncovered pyramid of dirt — different from the typical "funeral" mounds of dirt. I'm going to guess that these may be how they deal with the cheaper funerals. But, I'm not sure.




Yup, Bela Lugosi's dead — and buried in Holy Cross. He's one of the celebrities! Everyone seems to have known about this but me. Rita Hayworth and Macdonald Carey ("Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives") are underneath other gravestones I found yesterday. N.B.: the small black bat on the left side of Mr. Lugosi's marker.




Here's that heron. He really didn't want me to take his picture yesterday. He flapped away to the other side of the pond. Oh well, I still took his soul!


This concludes today's photo essay. :)

Comments

[kingcadillac.livejournal.com]

Have you gone to the cemetary on Pico and 14th? It's a lovely spot. Not much in the way of famed dead, but it's a very pretty place.

[aceofkittens.livejournal.com]

I've been past it several times, but never been inside. The first time, I was walking and was really shocked to see that there was a cemetery right there. I just can't get used to having cemeteries in the middle of town. The weird thing is this was a couple of years ago, when I kept seeing crows everywhere. And there was an entire murder of crows flapping around that cemetery. So spooky! :)