"What do you want to do for your birthday?" the Husband asked me last month.
"For starters, I want to have a coffee and croissant at Vertigo Coffee, then walk over to the highest point in town and take pictures."
So, off to San Juan Bautista, we went. The breakfast was delicious, thank you very much, Vertigo. And, yes, we walked across town in the wonderful rain to the San Juan Bautista Cemetery.
What can I say? Cemeteries are interesting, especially the cemetery in San Juan. We can across many headstones of people who died in the late 1800s. I found it curious that back then the husband's name was more prominent on his wife's tombstone.
The San Juan Bautista Cemetery, at the northwest end of the city, is also known as the Larios Cemetery for Don Manuel Larios, who deeded 10 acres of his rancho to San Juan for establishing a cemetery. To learn more about Don Larios and his family's plot, read Frank Perez's story Honoring His Family's Past.
Everything about a cemetery is fascinating. I wonder what may be the reason that loved ones placed certain decorations on the tombstones.
When I see a chair beside a tombstone, I imagine a loved one sitting and finding a calm of being there.
Wonderful photos! I like visiting graveyards - especially the old ones. There are several in Vienna. But I have never seen a chair beside a grave...
ReplyDeleteAnd a very belated Happy Birthday and a Happy New Year! :)
This is the first cemetery in which I saw chairs next to the graves. It was romantic and sad at the same time for me. Thank you for the greetings. Happy New Year!
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