in a Baton Rouge grave yard by jocko500
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this is an old photo but I have not been taking photos lately as i do not have a car and also. Anyway this is a sad place as the grass grows to high and you have to walk on the graves just to get around some of the places. They have clear it up sat times but not on a time line at all. just when the people start to complain or when some group of people come and do it for free.
That my son and yes he have a machete to cut weeds with and kill snakes. When we got out the car a man was sitting on a grave eating his lunch and when he saw the machete he got up and ran away.
I painting a lot also to get some work out. i behind on my paintings and i got shows coming up.
Comments (31)
Faemike55
Wonderful image Love the thought of the machete I've a couple of those that need to be sharpened again
lisalisette
I think I would also run away when someone is coming with a machete LOL Very nice shot jocko of this "forgotten" grave yard. Good luck with your paint work :)
donnena
Louisianan Grave yards are SO interesting!!! super cool image!
eekdog
yikes, snakes.. not for me. good to stay away, Jock. hope he does not go postal..
ZigZag321
Great picture and funny story about your son! LOL. But without a doubt, a machete is a must in the brush in the Summertime. Also? This is so different than our cemeteries here. Even the oldest graves around here only have headstones or markers. Not the big slab above ground. Fascinating. Bummer that it's not kept trimmed. I remember we used to go and cut the grass at my grandparents' grave. But now the cemetery has a guy who cuts the entire place.
starship64
You can't really blame a guy for running away if a stranger with a machete is coming. Nice shot, though.
Radar_rad-dude
That is a funny incident with you son and the machete and the guy running away! A most excellent photo showing the sad neglect of a venerable graveyard! Wonderful done, Jocko!
RodS
Too bad this cemetery in not better cared for. Maybe that was the caretaker that ran away! LOL Anyway, this is a lovely shot of it, Jock!
Wolfenshire
Yea, can't blame the poor guy for running away at the sight of a machete. But, exactly who eats their lunch in a cemetery.
Lucien_Lilippe
St John West ? Interress me a lot. My great great grandfather is burried there. Wonderfull photo.
durleybeachbum
I am the opposite of you about graveyards . Here in the UK the Church of England runs a wildlife friendly churchyard competition to encourage longer grass and wild flowers and more natural beauty. Not all participate of course, some preferring the unnatural look that some civic cemeteries use. What I dislike most are flowers left in the plastic which makes horrible litter. I also hate toys and stuff left on graves.
claude19
I'm still confused by these pictures of cemeteries that you show! another picture very touching!
Hendesse
A great and interesting shot of this overgrown cemetery. I had to laugh when I read the story with the machete.
adrie
Great and interesting photoshot Jock.
sossy
lol perhaps I also would run away! reminds me of a story a friend told me on work today, that there was a young boy running around across the street with a big knife in his hand and exactly straight to my friend who was there with her bike! she also didn't know what do do: stay or drive away! interesting capture with a stunning old trunk and cool textures! the graves also seem to be very old! ;o)
sharky_
I can't blame the guy for running, lol. Same happen when I was in the banana fields getting some banana stumps for my imu cooking. Homeless guy who was sleeping in the banana field panicked and ran when he saw me with the machete. Good Job helping clean the graves. Aloha
netot
Cool! LOL to comments from RodS and Wolfenshire. Machetes are daily tools here!
jendellas
Super pic & story. Glad I don't come acress snakes or men with machetes in the cemetery :o)
mickeyrony
Worms profit place ..... But like the mushroom in the tree ((5++))
goodoleboy
Egad, a cool capture of a poor excuse for a grave yard, Jock. Are those coffins sitting on top of the soil? And, I'm glad to see your son with a machete, ready to chop up snakes and guys eating their lunch sitting on a sacred grave.
flavia49
beautiful
soffy
Wonderful shot and story:))excellent****
Richardphotos
I would have ran away also! outstanding photo
bmac62
Love the old Louisiana cemeteries. Laughed a good laugh about the guy running away when he saw your son coming with the machete!
drifterlee
Cool shot, Jocko. We had a cemetery here in Holly that no one took care of. It had a caretaker but he never did anything. There were Revolutionary soldiers buried there.
moochagoo
A wonderful place for eternity.
Star4mation
Super shot Jock :)
Cyve
Fantastic capture !!!
three_grrr
I'm sorry you don't have a car right now, hope one is in your future. Miss your photos of great places like this one. This is such a beautiful old cemetary, as I've said before, it's a shame they aren't kept up. I'd run too if I saw someone with a machete (:
danapommet
A nice photo Jock and a shame that the graveyard is not being kept up - I do like that gnarly tree stump in the foreground!