Funerary landscaping

A photo essay on the stages of decay of funerary landscape architecture.

The Kates monument in Laurel Hill

The Kates monument in Laurel Hill gets us to the name of the quarry that contracted several works discussed here.

Phidippides and the victory motive.

An astonishing constellation of Christian and classical ideas in a statue of Phidippides.

Flora!

An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.

Aspirations

A beautiful female figure modeled by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth turns up in a newly discovered replica.

An interesting and malleable monument type.

A grand beaux-arts monument evolves to something charming.

A delightful tomb with a religious theme

A religiously themed monument in Druid Ridge that avoids cliché with some novel imagery.