Photographing graves for fun and profit...

Well, actually for neither. I find it interesting, not fun, and I spend money on scooter gas to do it, but it keeps me out of trouble:) I am not really a morbid person at all, I am rather pragmatic about death, and not into dwelling on it. However, I am also into genealogy and looking for things online found Find A Grave. I decided to become a photo volunteer(it's also an excuse to ride my scooter). It's a challenge to locate graves, and it makes you think a lot about how you should live your life. It can also be sad when you read the dates on some and realize it is a child's grave, but I also am inspired by the beauty of the grounds at times, or the statuary, or the symbolism in the older graves markings of weeping trees, skyward-pointing hands, or people buried next to one another that you realize had been together a long time, and died within a short time of each other. It makes you feel connected to the past, and makes you consider your present.