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While it is sad to see when something has been damaged, or that something once meaningful has been neglected, there is also a certain aesthetic quality to them. They often give the impression of having some incredible story to tell, if they could just talk. Here some that caught my [...]

Queen of Heaven is a Roman Catholic cemetery in Hillside, Illinois, consecrated in 1947. Operations were combined with the neighboring Mount Carmel Cemetery in 1965. There are currently over 122,000 people buried there, and over 3,000 annual internments. The adjacent Queen of Heaven Mausoleum, has 30,000 crypts.

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Mount Carmel is a Roman Catholic cemetery that was consecrated in 1901. It's located right across the street from Queen of Heaven, which it combined operations with in 1965. While many nationalities can be found at both, Mount Carmel is predominantly Italian, and Queen of Heaven is predominantly Slavic. [...]

At the corner of Meyers and Roosevelt road in Lombard Illinois, is Trinity Lutheran church. If you look carefully, behind a row of bushes and trees, is a tiny cemetery. There are only three, short, and crowded rows, and a few additional scattered monuments in the lot beside the church. All the [...]

Woodlawn Cemetery, in Forest Park, on the outskirts of Chicago, is home to Showman's Rest. In the spring of 1918, Hagenback-Wallace Circus, one of the premier circuses of the time, was decimated when the circus train was in an accident on [...]

The following user icons were created from my cemetery photographs. They are free for anyone to use as an icon, but please credit to GreyLetter.com if you use them. Many can be used as-is while others have space for modification- adding text, your name, etc.. Enjoy!
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I have added a sales area to GreyLetter.com; the card sets, calenders, posters and prints are all based on my own work. The calenders will be available in the 1-month at a time flip style for 2009 when I have time to sort through more photographs. I'll also be adding a section for original paintings [...]

These should speak for themselves... (Except for the Frank Grimes one, you must be a die hard fan of "The Simpsons" to get it). No disrespect is meant to any individuals- I frequently find amusement in plays on my own name;  my father was unintentionally named after a hobbit in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

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Continuing from my last post with examples of votives at local grave sites.

In my last post I discussed Grave Goods and Votives and shared some photos of pet/animal statues left at local grave sites. This post is for other kinds of votives: wind chimes, trinkets, food, holiday decorations, toys and the like. When the deceased are stored in mausoleums, there are sometimes shelves at the [...]