Beach Cemetery, Troy MI

Today I visited Beach Cemetery. 

It's an interesting cemetery since there are only a few stones still standing but there are a bunch of names carved onto this giant rock in the center.  The sidewalk shown above is right along the road, but it's a residential area so the speed limit is slow. 

"Cheer up, we are near the Land of Promise.  See that light ahead, that is the Land of Promise."  

We "came up to our new place, where we have lived ever since, 

the recipients of manifold blessings, temporal and spiritual."

~ SVR Trowbridge to his wife up arrival in the Troy area.

You can read all the names on the Find A Grave link above. 

There's also a lot of history included in the individual memorials.

I don't know if the stones were vandalized or what. 

But there are several bases. 

Edward W Parks

Aug 17, 1825 - Jan 21, 1866

Engr US Navy in Civil War

Fanny M.

his wife

Nov 18, 1828 - Nov 5, 1898

Top is broken off

Robert Parks

died - June 29, 1864

aged 88 years

Polly

wife of Robert Parks

died - June 30, 1844

aged 63 years

Elizabeth

wife of Robert Parks

died - Sept 10, 1852

aged 68 years

Black walnuts on the ground

Skidmore

James Skidmore

born - March 9, 1798

died - Nov 23, 1886

Philinda, his wife

born - Dec 3, 1800

died - March 22, 1873

Stephen Van Rensselaer Trowbridge

died - March 1, 1859

aged 64y 8m

born - July 4, 1794

Elizabeth Conkling

wife of SVR Trowbridge

died - Nov 29, 1873

aged - 76y 6m 7d

The Trowbridges

In memoriam

George B Martin

1853 - 1933

and his wife

Frances J. Gillett

1856 - 1938

Charles C. Beach

born - Feb 16, 1844

died - Aug 8, 1858

Reuben C. Beach

born - Nov 29, 1782

died - Dec 23, 1863

aged - 69y 2m 29d

Marietta A. Davis

wife of R.C. Beach

born - Nov 9, 1804

died - June 17, 1890

Jacob Gillett

born into the Spirit World

Feb 7, 1858

aged 73 years

looking to the left of the gate

looking straight in from the gate

looking to the right of the gate

Some critter fur, likely a deer that didn't quite make the jump.

 

Halfway to Halloween!!!!

Almost halfway there!

I consider May 2 to be the true halfway point because I don't count the actual day of Halloween when I count days.  Half of 364 is 182 which is May 2.   That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

 I've been seeing Halfway to Halloween events & sneak peeks all over the place!

Nothing has really caught my attention - that I NEED to have.

yet

Oh, and some states consider May to be Cemetery Appreciation Month!  Michigan needs to get on the ball.  I have a bunch of cemetery posts already scheduled for this month.  

Subliminal messaging....

Oh - and besides the skeletons I still have stacked somewhat neatly on my patio...

I had to mow the lawn around the shack.  Yes - It's still out there! 

The Spouse came out when I was halfway done (it takes a minimum of 2 hours to mow) and asked if I wanted to move it.  NO.  I was already tired.

I did find a morel mushroom in my yard, tho!

Sadly, I don't know how to cook them. 

Words of wisdom from the excellent little Mexican restaurant we like to go to.....

OK, I fell victim..... 

I couldn't resist the silver 3' skeleton with rhinestones & pearls all over it!

Damn HalloweenExpress anyway. 

And sales. 

I had to zoom way in to see all the bling - I hope I can get a good pic when it gets delivered. 

 Which should be May 6!   

This brings my count up to 3 silver blingy skeletons. 

I'll have to figure out something special to do with them.  

200 days!

We've had some unseasonably warm weather lately - so that meant a trip to Holland Ponds for a walk around the ponds - before the bugs come out!

They added this part of the sign when a pair of eagles built a nest in the rookery. 

People have been posting eagle sightings all over the area, but I sure haven't seen any yet!  And this park is only about 1 1/2 miles away from my house!

Turtles!

OK, so we didn't see much of anything exciting, but it was a nice day for a walk!

And a reminder.....

There was a lot of flooding around my sister's house at Easter.

This guy had wet feets!

Happy Easter

 Whoops - forgot to post!

Ready to color eggs!

The cracks resemble a spider. 

Bunny tracks!

There's poop on the windshield!

Leroy the barn cat like to help out!

Leroy didn't like that egg hidden there, so he batted it out and proceeded to play with it.

4 times!!!

Happy Easter!

Happy Spring!

We'll just ignore the fact that I had to scrape ice off my windshield this morning. 

That's the extent of my Easter decorations - except for the little bit I have at work. 

Last weekend I had a drill with the search & rescue I volunteer on.  I had to leave before we found our missing person, but I did find a deer skull (and pelvis with 2 vertebra) which led to several off-color jokes.

Is it? 

So I had to leave early because I didn't look at the calendar before getting tickets for the family to Monster Jam!  

I opted not to take Chuck - and I'm glad because Ford Field was sold out and I've never seen that many people at Monster Jam in all the years I've been going! 

But I did take Tater Tot

 (formerly known as Mini-Chuck)

He had a good time. 

Grave Digger (on fire)

Mayhem (possibly on fire)

El Toro Loco (on fire)

I've also never seen the ground teams have to use fire extinguishers before!  Usually, it's just a little poot of flame that shoots out of the bottom of the truck, but these were straight up on FIRE.

Next adventure.... another trip to Ohio!