A walk this morning

[Blackbird6]

Very eerie here this morning normally walk around the outside if I walk this way don't ask me why I went in just intrigued by the older head stones 😏 sunrise and it's reflection through the tree was something

[sassy59]

Very eerie indeed but we like looking at old headstones too. Xxxx

[Blackbird6 in reply to sassy59]

Phew glad it's not just me Carol some in here go back centuries xx

[sassy59 in reply to Blackbird6]

Fascinating stuff. Xxx 😘

[Damon1864 Volunteer]

Thank you once again for a fascinating pic, I like looking at old headstones too, it's amazing what you can find out from the.😊 Bernadette xx

[Blackbird6 in reply to Damon1864]

Thanks Bernadette they can certainly give you some history 🤗🤗

[SquirrelsHolt]

Your photo sure gives me the e-b-g-bees,very spooky but what a brilliant moment in time you've captured. Well done!

[Blackbird6 in reply to SquirrelsHolt]

Ah sorry squirrel last thing I want is too frighten anyone or give them the wullies wasn't my intention at all 😂😂😂😂

[SquirrelsHolt in reply to Blackbird6]

Oh no,its nice to "feel" the mood of the photo. x

[Blackbird6 in reply to SquirrelsHolt]

I understand where your are coming from 😊

[rsmrsnl]

Stunning photo

[Blackbird6 in reply to rsmrsnl]

Thankyou good of you to say xx

[Hacienda]

Wow, Stunning , catching the Light through the Tree, Beautiful & Peaceful. xxx

[Blackbird6 in reply to Hacienda]

Very peaceful 😍

[hypercat54]

I remember being 13 and my older sister and I discovered an ancient churchyard complete with stones. Many were from the 14th and 15th Century and it was really creepy. x

[Blackbird6 in reply to hypercat54]

Very creepy for kids of that age but wow that's some age of head stones amazing x

[Tree20862]

Cool photo! And eerie at the same time.

[Blackbird6 in reply to Tree20862]

Thankyou x

[SORRELHIPPO]

Great picture, I used to be fascinated as well, very nice graveyard in Painswick (Gloucestershire) very old Yew trees, said to be the oldest in the UK. I used to end up making stories in my head, especially when there were a few members of the same family, sort of lined up in date order. Mum gave me some more ideas when she explained that Yews were only in graveyards as they were poisonous to humans and animals!!

[Blackbird6 in reply to SORRELHIPPO]

Thank you ..I bet those yew trees are a sight to behold. I know what you mean about making stories up once imagination takes over you can get so carried away to lots of places xx

[Boeta]

Hi...there's hope, and I see it in this great photo...something inspired you to take it...not spooky or anything else, but my own interpretation....it is full of light and it tells ME there is life after death....my favorite topic for I NEED to know...please do not feel offended as for some this can be some woo-woo stuff, but that's okay...remember, I am looking at all the symbols ....a truly GREAT PICTURE

[Blackbird6]

Ah thankyou so much Boeta for your kind words . Your interpretation of it is how I see it full of soft sunlight coming through the spreading branches of the tree .

I don't take offence at anyone's perceptions everyone sees things differently and I like to read how they are all described enjoy your day xx

[Whitechinchilla]

Spectacular photo. Thank you

If I am struggling with my emotions I go and sit in the small cemetery near my flat.

I find it very calming and healing. I love to read the headstones some of which have beautiful messages.

[Blackbird6 in reply to Whitechinchilla]

Thank you my lovley...thats great you can take yourself away and enjoy a peaceful moment ... some of the messages are beautiful I did get a shudder at some of them wasn't sure if it was chilly or just me reading them have a wonderful Friday it's my day off today so housework and afternoon nap later 😂😂

[Whitechinchilla]

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[Hidden]

Very very atmospheric..........spookily lol. Great photo.

[Blackbird6 in reply to Hidden]

Lol Thank you annastatia xx

[megshafer]

I like looking a really old headstones. too. It's really a fantastic picture... looks to me like a old album cover...it was perfect timing...you got the sun at the right time and angle.

Take good care of you!!

Meg xx

[Blackbird6 in reply to megshafer]

Glad you like it Meg the lighting was just perfect very early misty morning my favourite times I think nobody much around xx

[Magpuss]

Totally different to your usual pic's but so atmospheric. Love the mist and the pale gold sunlight.

[Blackbird6 in reply to Magpuss]

It is a little bit different Magpuss and thankyou so much the sunlight is amazing 😂

[Hidden]

You were in the right place, at the right time for this to be a cracker of a photo! But my very wise Mam always told me that it's the living you need to be afraid of, not the dead, so you were quite safe there? 👻👌

[Blackbird6 in reply to Hidden]

Lol a wise woman your mum and very agreeable to what's she's said . I didn't feel unsafe just not one of my normal areas to walk . This old church has been here for years and I have never actually set foot on the grounds but will go back as a very peaceful place xx

[Hidden]

Always interesting stones in old churchyards, often with far more information than modern stones? Sad to see how high the infant mortality rates were. One of my (now late) sisters and I used to do brass rubbings in old churches when I was young (it's rarely allowed now, as it wears away the brass!), and we always used to cry over all the babies and toddlers... But so interesting to discover a lot of history of an area: plague cemeteries, TB cemeteries,... You may even discover some murders, whole families, or people who died of broken hearts! Happy hunting! 😉

[Blackbird6 in reply to Hidden]

I think that's what made me shudder was the high child rate and so young very sad a lot of people died very early in age back along .

I have visions of cleaning brass in the house as a child and cleaning the lino floors with old rags used as dusters on our feet made more of a game than a chore lol xx

[Izb1 in reply to Hidden]

Hi Hopalong, I used to do brass rubbing in churches when I was young and loved it, havent heard much about it anymore x

[Hidden in reply to Izb1]

I believe some places will allow it to be done on certain days now, but I've no idea how one would even find out about it? 🤔

[Izb1 in reply to Hidden]

Sadly those days are gone for me, have a bad back and rheumatoid arthritis now, but thank you for replying.

[Hidden in reply to Izb1]

Me to I'm afraid. I have spinal nerve damage giving me chronic sciatica, osteoarthritis, and now I have very bad lower limb lymphoedema. They say old age doesn't come on its own, and for me, it arrived as a lorry load! 🙄

But I like to try to stay cheerful - it makes people wonder what I've been up to...? 😉

[Izb1 in reply to Hidden]

I like that you stay cheerful, its a real pickup for you and those around you, although there are times that I swear like a trooper when the pain ha!

[Hidden in reply to Izb1]

The air is frequently blue here to! 😂😂

I couldn't help but notice on one of your posts, that your daughter lives in Cardiff? I live in Merthyr Tydfil. It's a small world....? 😊👍

[Izb1 in reply to Hidden]

Yes it is a small world. I have fallen in love with Wales, they live in Pontcanna, its such a lovely area and have everything on their doorstep, cafes, bakers and the biggest park I have seen its so lovely. Its funny when younger I thought all of Wales was like Rhyl and never wanted to go, alot of wasted years ha!

[Hidden in reply to Izb1]

I'm sending you a personal message. I hope you don't mind...?

[O2Trees]

I don't find it eery or creepy at all Blackbird - atmospheric yes, and just amazingly beautiful and uplifting. (And Im not religious btw!)

[Blackbird6 in reply to O2Trees]

Thanks 02 I'm not religious either lol .

Very peaceful place just a bit shuddery for me as was very early morning and nobody around I think my imagination ran away with me and went into overdrive reading the head stones sad as they were 😊

[O2Trees in reply to Blackbird6]

True, that can be sad, especially when it's children who've died very young. But Ive always loved gravestones and cemeteries though I think I'll give my body to science. Or maybe a woodland burial site - maybe I should get a move on deciding

[Blackbird6 in reply to O2Trees]

I'm going to Valhala on a burning boat 😂

[O2Trees in reply to Blackbird6]

Good choice BB

[Hidden in reply to Blackbird6]

I've decided to fool them all - I'm not going to die! 😂😂

[Hidden]

People didn't usually live to great ages, even when they did get the chance? 🤔

The smell of lavender always conjures memories of my Mam - on her knees, polishing the lino... Old clothes were never just thrown away - buttons were removed and saved, to be used again, and the rest (usually natural fibres then?) were cut up for dusters. We were far more 'green' then? 👍😊

[Blackbird6 in reply to Hidden]

What a lovley memory of your mum and your right everything was greener then and no health and safety rubbish either xx

[SORRELHIPPO in reply to Hidden]

I am only in my 60's but still keep a "button box", I was taught how to "turn" collars and cuffs, so when they frayed on a shirt, you turned them and the shirt went on for a good deal longer. In domestic science at school we were taught patching and darning, also how to use a mushroom to mend socks and stockings. My Gran would have died before she bought a duster as she said what other use could you put Grandad's old underwear to!!!

[Hidden in reply to SORRELHIPPO]

I'm 65, and Cookery and Needlework were my favourite subjects. They weren't called 'Domestic Science' in my school, but now even that doesn't exist any more, and neither cooking nor needlework are considered worth teaching? Yet neither are they learned from mothers and Grandmothers, although there are television programmes about them. So how/where are people supposed to learn these things??

Children are growing up in a 'throwaway society', where money has replaced ingenuity and resourcefulness - televisions and radios (Radios? How many kids have a radio???) don't have replaceable valves, washing machines don't have replaceable drive-belts, and as for spin dryers - what luxury!!

Yet in our day, washing machines replaced washboards, and it was called 'progress'....?

[Glasgowgirl1947]

We have a huge graveyard attached to our church. The children in the congregation are completely cool about the graves. They understand that the dead can't harm you. We have over 28,000 souls buried going back almost 300 years. We have Thomas Whittam V.C. buried along with quite a few other war graves. My parents and my husband's mum's ashes are placed in one of the ashes walls which we have for that purpose. Our church was built by Benjamin Ingham and we're the last Inghamite church in GB, fortunately, our congregation is growing and we are a loving family church. Our graveyard is hard to manage because of the size and we had to stop visitors from going too far into the oldest part due to danger from falling headstones and regretfully had to lay a lot down, we removed kerbs and it's now easier to strim & mow the whole area. We've had to take back land which a local farmer rented for animal pasture as we had so many people wanting to have burials, we have laid aside a section for Muslim burials too. It's nice to sit out and just be at peace.

[Izb1]

Another great photo Blackbird, but you wouldnt get me walking through a graveyard on my own looking like that, with mist coming through the trees and nobody around, wayyyyy to spooky for me ha!

[Blackbird6]

Awww bless you 😂😂😂

[pepapod]

What a lovely photo! Thanks for sharing it with us, Blackbird.

[Blackbird6 in reply to pepapod]

Your so welcome pepapod and thankyou xx