As I've mentioned before, Mt. View Cemetery is treated like a public piazza by the local community. Every day you'll find people jogging, walking their dogs, having picnics, practicing their instruments, and wandering about with their cameras. The cemetery itself hosts several events across the year. The Spring event is the Tulip Festival. Visitors come to admire the thousands of tulips planted each year by the cemetery. One of the local chapel buildings also hosts floral displays presented by various florists and garden groups. This event always signals that finer weather is on its way.
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Your tulips are eye candy for me... I'm not in the prettiest spot on earth. :-) While I was in Europe last year during the spring season, I re-fell in love with tulips (you may remember I posted some on my blog back then). I'd so like to visit Mt View Cemetery in Spring. Lovely photo.
ReplyDelete[Re my lotion mural: I share your thought that snowflake could mean white; and so the question is white lotion or white skin? :-)]
I love the idea of this cemetery being like a 'piazza'!. Perhaps the permanent residents feel a little less lonely for all that?!
ReplyDeleteSuch dazzling tulips! Like a celebration of life that has been and is!
ReplyDeleteI continue to be amazed by this lovely cemetery.
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous well composed shot!
ReplyDeleteWhat he said! Great shot from a great angle.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice geste to plant tulips there.
ReplyDeleteThere is a cemetery here that has a similar display of tulips in front of their gates. But we don't have any blossoms yet.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely picture. I love the tulips looking so big and bold in the foreground!
ReplyDeleteCarolyn, do you know what happened to City Daily Photo???
I like the idea of the cemetery being used by the wider community. Beautiful tulip display.
ReplyDeletei like this red
ReplyDeleteit's spring
Tulips are my favourite, but when I see them it means autumn is coming soon around here... ;-)
ReplyDeleteRegarding your comment, yes, Huacachina is a natural oasis, artificially maintained.
These tulips are beautiful.I thought our cemetery would be full of people walking around, but maybe I am there at off hours, because mostly it is empty.
ReplyDeleteooh, i love flowers! very pretty!
ReplyDeleteinteresting that that cemetery does not seem to be a place of silence. different. but nice, actually! why would you always have to be silent at a cemetery...?
«Louis» had forgotten about the tulips at Mountain View. He will have to take Mme la Vache and the Vachemobile on a little drive up Piedmont Ave...
ReplyDeleteHe thanks you for the reminder!
Just stunning. Hope they withstood this last downpour.
ReplyDeleteLovely composition in this shot. The tulips are just wonderful!
ReplyDeleteOh, how I wish that at least one of our cemeteries would do something similar, and include the dearly departed in the living world again. I am sure it would be well attended and might even increase the flow of visitors outside the event. Gorgeous scarlet in these tulips, Carolyn.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great shot ! The tulips are amazing so as the composition of your picture.
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