Thursday, February 19, 2015

Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah

Bonaventure Cemetery is an eerie place with the Spanish Moss (not truly a moss) hanging from the old live oak trees.  The place is left a little wild as a garden and that adds to the eeriness also. Something about the unkempt looks enhances the feeling of neglect and decay expected in an eerie place.


Yet, Nature always arranges itself as seen in this photo.  Or is it the photographer's eye?


Here the garden is not manicured but seems to arrange itself for the camera.
Earlier this week, we had been in gardens with an English influence: tightly trimmed boxwood and neatly patterned brick walkways.  Everything was arranged in geometric order.
Here in the cemetery it seems that Nature arranges by light and color hue and organic shapes.


This live oak was in a more open area but the slanting, late afternoon sun
made the Spanish moss almost shimmer in the breeze.  Again, the shrubs seemed to arrange themselves even though there was not a visible pattern.

Maybe it's just these Northern eyes 
so used to white snow and black pavement (on a good day for winter driving)?







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