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A limestone gravestone with a few vines of green ivy reaching up from the base. In the lunette of the stone is a large carving of a goose or swan with its wings outstretched and head bend down, feeding 6 or 7 babies in a nest. The majority of the stone is illegible.

Day 5, Bird:
A gorgeous swan or goose with a nest full of babies, on a weathered gravestone at Pére Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. I've never seen so many birds on a grave! #31daysofgraves

Thank you so much! 🥰

It's me! I'm standing in the my bathroom mirror, holding up my phone. I have a mustard yellow long cardigan, silver necklace, white and black striped shirt, and jeans!

Mirror selfie with my crutch after a friend's excellent surprise bday party ✨️

Looke uppon the language of a speakeing stone...

Physician James Vaulx and his two wives Editha Jenner and Filipe Horton at St Mary, Meysey Hampton. 1630.

#31DaysOfGraves

Day 4: Languages

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A close up of the bottom of the Day 4 gravestone, pre-cleaning. The last 2 lines are in Scottish Gaelic, and I'm not sure what it says :(

@annaandthedead.bsky.social here is a pic from the previous year during cleaning, you can see the inscription a bit better with the cleaner on it!

Haha yup!! But no, this is the only one I've seen in Nfld! I know of another in Nova Scotia, but that's it. And i've never seen Irish on a grave over here, that would be sick!

A small, ornate marble gravestone to two children, Robert Baxter Macdonald, and Leah Elizabeth Macdonald. They both died in the 1880s. The base of their gravestone has several lines of Gaelic.

Day 4, Languages: I may have posted a photo of this grave last year, but now it's super clean! This grave, to Robert & Leah MacDonald, has an epitaph in Gaelic along the bottom. The stone is at the Old UC Cemetery in Greenspond, NL. 🏺❤️ #31DaysofGraves

It was fantastic! Part memoir part history! It's called the Secret Life of a Cemetery

😂😂

Mm, I think it needs more skeletons.

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Well this is amazing!!

A photo in Pete Lachaise Cemetery of a pyramid shaped mausoleum. There is a plinth over the low door, with an ankh made of holes on the door. Behind it are gorgeous tall trees with yellowing leaves and other gravestones.

Day 3, Tomb: We saw this amazing example in Pére Lachaise Cemetery, following the Egyptomania trend of the late 18th to early 20th century! Complete with an anhk, the only inscription appears to be 'Sacchet J-L-C'. I'd love to know more about them! 🏺
#31DaysofGraves

Thank you! I had wanted to go for ages too, it was amazing! Have you read the curator's new book?

Omg!!! Amazing, I can't wait! 😍

Hello!!

Panel on a white marble gravestone. It has curls on the top, with an anchor motif. It reads: "in memory of two Norwegian sailors, Anders Monsen, aged 29 yrs, and Peder Swertsen, aged 16 yrs"

Day 2, Nautical:
The grave of Anders Monsen and Peder Swertsen, who drowned off Bonavista, NL, in the 'Great Storm' of 1907. Their marble gravestone is just beside the lych gate at the Alexander Mortuary Chapel of All Souls, Bonavista. #31DaysofGraves

The grave of Frédéric Chopin, composer! There is a central block of grey stone with a profile bust of Chopin in the centre, and a mourning woman statue on top. The grave is surrounded by stone pillars with inverted torches, and iron fencing. The front of the grabe is covered in bunches of bright flowers left by visitors.

Day 1, Flowers: I've gone with the live flowers decorating the grave of composer Frédéric Chopin, who is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris. #31daysofgraves

31 days of Graves text! It details all the themes that I don't have room to type out, and is overtoo of a photo of new england gravestones on green grass

It's the most wonderful time of the year... #31DaysofGraves !!
Created by the wonderful @annaandthedead.bsky.social, I will be playing only with photos already on my phone from the last year! Lets go!!

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2: Stone to John Duff and Mary Murray 1782, with image of ferryman at Perth Bridge, Kinnoull Old Parish Burial Ground.

"I asked Chat GPT"

Well we asked an expert and then we asked other experts in that field to review the first expert's work.

I did a scary thing just now, & registered for a week long intensive course in exhibit design & planning! It's not til the new year, but I'm really excited to add that to my roster! :) #museums 🏺

Omg yesss! I've been following the story!

Haha not quite that far, but that's great!

Phyllis Webstad, Founder of the Orange Shirt Society, said it best: 'Denialism is a non-Indigenous issue, we (Indigenous people) have enough to deal with.'
Denialism is racism.

Yess gimme gimme!

As I’m typing these words, Israel is illegally intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla that is trying to break the siege on Gaza.

This is an illegal enforcement of an illegal blockade.

So I reached out to the Canadian government to see what they would do for the six Canadians on board:

I'm working on a paper with a colleague on people painting #gravestones with good intentions & bad results for conservation. Does anyone have any examples of this?? 🏺

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.

“We’re destroying the planet,” she said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC.

Oh dang, I wish I could apply 😭 I did part of my undergrad in the UK but my degrees are all from Canada