Day 10 of #31DaysOfGraves: Urn. St. Cuthbert’s, Kildale, North Yorkshire, England.

#31daysofgraves Day 11: Military Sir Richard Leveson 1570-1605 at St Peter Wolverhampton. By Hubert Le Sueur. Here lyeth the bodye of Perfection’s glorie; Fame’s owne worlde wonder, and the ocean’s story; The right protector, rightful scourge of wrong.. 1/2

Day 11 of #31DaysOfGraves: Military. Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia.

Day 12 of #31DaysOfGraves: Notable woman. Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia.

Day 13 of #31DaysOfGraves: Skeleton. Here in New England, skeletons on 17th and 18th century gravestones abound. Going with the celebrated Joseph Tapping stone, d. 1678, in Boston’s King Chapel Burying Ground. Photo not mine, credit unknown.

Day 14 of #31DaysOfGraves: Inside. A lovely bronze decoration for an urn niche in the Columbarium at Forest Hills Cemetery, Boston, Massachusetts.

"Many haws, many sloes, many cold toes!" Old country wisdom says that an abundance of hawthorn berries and sloes in autumn is a sure sign of a cold winter to come. Have you seen a plentiful crop of haws and sloes in the hedgerows near you? #WednesdayWisdom #nature #folklore

#31DaysofGraves - Day 15 - Damaged Long Society Meeting House Cemetery, Preston, Connecticut, USA

Day 15 of #31DaysOfGraves: Damaged. North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 16: Obelisk My obelisk’s bigger than yours. Sarnesfield churchyard.

Day 16 of #31DaysOfGraves: Obelisk. Formerly in the now-demolished St. James’ Church, Hampstead Road, London, this Coade stone monument to Sir William Hillman, d. 1793, currently lives in the V&A in London. Couldn’t do anything about the handrail in the way!

Good day from the Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery.

#31DaysOfGraves Day 16: Obelisk Grave monument with obelisk at Lister Lane Cemetery. This marks the burial place of former tailor and draper Adam Lowe, who died in 1883, aged 87. Interred with both his wives, Bathsheba, who died in 1848, aged 54 and Mary, died in 1882 aged 69.

Incredible images of NPR’s Susan Stamberg, who has died at 87. The next post has an audio story that will tell you something about her. npr.org/sections/the-p…

100 years ago today, Oct. 17, 1925: Boston's Wang Theatre opened as the Metropolitan Theatre. It was built as a movie palace within a 14-story office building. Its 4-story Grand Lobby was modeled after the Palais Garnier in Paris. At 3,600 seats, it's the city's largest theater.

Mouse leave you with a little something for #RomanesqueRiday (thank you Rufus) from #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset This is an important and rather overlooked Norman Romanesque church. It has a large amount of Romanesque carving to the arch capitals. But how much has been replaced?

Day 17 of #31DaysOfGraves: Relocated. Headstones and memorials in the basement of St. Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, London, England.

Day 18 of #31DaysOfGraves: Mistake. Some might say that the mistake on Josiah Fisk’s stone in Walton Cemetery, Pepperell, Massachusetts is one of the hazards of using a local, whose speech was (and still is) famous for dropping the “r”s. (De-pah-ted.)