Jul. 6th, 2008

tvordlj: (Summer Umbrella)
I decided to walk through one of the old cemeteries in the centre of the city, Camp Hill cemetery. It's not the oldest one, but it has graves and memorials going back to the early 19th century. Many of the headstones are worn and mossed up and you can't read them. Some are crooked, some have been vandalized and knocked over and broken, sadly. There are some famous Haligonians buried there including Alexander Keith who founded a local brewery that makes what is probably the most popular beer here, Keith's India Pale Ale. I saw another large memorial to a man that was a politician though i'd not heard of him. There were family plots lined with stone and there were headstones that looked like they had sunken into the ground, only the tops of them seen but perhaps they were just small headstones for children and infants. There are lots of shady trees in the cemetery as well and some very large and old ones as well, which gnarled trunks or wide stretched branches shading large areas.

From there, i walked across the road to the Public Gardens, which is always a treat on a sunny day. The flowers were blazing with colour. I never get tired of taking a few photos in the Gardens.
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