Re-visiting a Winter visit

Flowers blooming, this marker was covered on my last visit

Life in the village of the dead...spring.

Fair warning to canines, there are worse fates.

Wheel of fortune...can you solve the puzzle?

It was noon, accounting for DST, still an hour off.

This too was covered by snow.

The flags still fly.

A prominent location Was Mr. Bloom a florist, gardener, artist or wit?

It flys true

Distress?

Your Class ring paid for part of this.

This birdhouse on top of a marker to one of the founding families of Attleboro, who coincidentally have a park and zoo named after them as well. The placement of the birdhouse just stuck in my head. Man often goes to great effort to keep birds away from monuments, yet here the opposite is true; as Spock would say:"Fascinating Captain".

Cemetery at Mystic CT

I have been driving by this cemetery for years, you can see it from I95 in Mystic CT, I finally stopped to take some photos and see it up close.
These 3 are just a sample, they stood out from the rest.
It's a beautiful place, it runs along the Mystic river for a bit with views of the opposite shore and the seaport to the south.
Most folks don't go to Mystic to see a cemetery, but this one is worth a visit.

Bluefields Grafittii Clausland Mountain

The above are shots of grafittii adorning the walls of a WWI era rifle range in Blauvelt NY.
As a teen I spent quite a bit of time camping and hiking through this park, my friends and I built some lean toos for shelter in a few spots; we would go up there on weekends to camp, shoot BB guns, drink, play war, explore. It was remote enough to not be bothered, yet close enough to hump in what we needed.
I took my son there last week to show him a part of my youth, it is very different.
The grafittii is the most obvious change, the remoteness allows artists to spend lots of time to create their masterpieces; the canvas of the concrete walls is hundreds of feet long so there is room for quite a bit more.
The park is one that is "undeveloped" and with the current state of financial affairs in NY I expect it to remain so.
When I grew up (1970's) there were no houses nearby, now they encroach the parks borders.
The physical deterioration of the range is noticeable, some driven by man,(vandalism) most the inexorable forces of nature, the freeze thaw cycle of destruction, wind, rain, lightning, insects perhaps the random low richter earthquake. Holes that shed light into previously unknown tunnels illustrate the changes that have occured, the trees that grew tall on a concrete deck have toppled from a lack of support their shallow roots could not give.
I plan on revisiting when it is warmer, more pics to follow.
I may even try to find one of the lean toos.
I would only ask that the artists pick up their cans and carry them out.

Arnold Mills Cemetery

Arnold Mills cemetery post and chain