Friday, October 11, 2019

Pioneer Cemetery, Prescott Arizona

It is where many "old timers" are buried. Some of the gravestones show dates in the mid-1800s. It is well preserved and maintained, although some of the graves have seen the unkindness of the passage of time.

It is located on a small hill off of a busy street. But once there all seems calm and quiet. I love taking walks there with my dog who is most interested in the labyrinth and holes gofers make on the grounds. I think he has sniffed every hole making me worried that a gofer would eventually decide to teach him a lesson and bite his nose!

Here is a grave one may say typically affected by the Southwestern plant grow, mainly the Prickly Pear Cactus. There are a few like this one and somehow I find it most fitting to the environment.



And then there are always surprises. I found these two angels lonesome and away from any grave I could detect. Why were they there? Was there a grave under them that had been effaced a bit by the winds and the sand storms?



But, like other times in my life, I tried to ask very few question when I met angels with broken wings....

October 11, 2019
© Vahé A. Kazandjian, 2019