The Dead Centre of.... by maggiemae

The Dead Centre of....

my small town. This was taken on a morning bike ride and there was a sea mist hanging over the hill making the scene a bit mysterious. To top it off there was a dog howling here too!

Three good things:
1. Don't tell the Lab nurse but I did a 3/4 hour bike ride before my cholesterol and sugar blood tests. Supposed to reduce them and although my cholesterol is a teeny bit high, my mother's was high too and she lived to 95 and never had a heart event.
2. Information about my peppermint plant - will keep on using the leaves in everything!
3. Fun making a picture for the toy/puzzle challenge.
Great title ! A very tidy grave yard........I like the hedge boundaries it seems to make a frame! A large grave yard for what I imagine is quite a small town? Well I think the nurse should applaud you for your bike riding exercise! I am sure some people have a natural higher cholesterol level anyway....sometimes I think they know too much!
January 29th, 2015  
I like the various shaped headstones and all the green tones.
January 29th, 2015  
Nice setting!
January 29th, 2015  
@happypat Last time - some years ago - the doctor told me to watch my diet then I told him I was a dietitian so he said, take the diet sheet anyway! I threw it away as i know what i'm eating and its healthy! This is the old part of the graveyard - 1800's to early 1900s. There is another big one not far away.
January 29th, 2015  
@maggiemae quite right to throw it away....you know what you are doing ......they should give us credit that we know our own bodies!
January 29th, 2015  
Nice view over the cemetery.
My cholesterol and my mother's is also a bit high, and we eat rather healthy. It must be something genetic.
January 29th, 2015  
Love this shot. I had an discussion with my doctor re cholesterol. Asked him to convince me to take tablets. Tests proved that while my cholesterol was high I didn't need tablets so back to just eating a sensible cholesterol controlling diet and exercising.
January 29th, 2015  
@ubobohobo I think it might be the level of bad cholesterol that is the problem and that should be concentrated on, not the total level!
January 29th, 2015  
Spooky and a great title
January 29th, 2015  
@wearing0 spooky was the word I was trying for, Debi- thanks!
January 29th, 2015  
Lovely capture, looks well tended
January 29th, 2015  
A great capture -- love the pun in the title
January 29th, 2015  
I love old cemetery shots. This is a beautiful place
January 29th, 2015  
A beautifully laid out graveyard, dog howling sounds a bit spooky!
I had a cholesterol count of 8+ after 7 years of eating extremely little and I certainly didn't eat anything fatty, so I think it must be genetic.
January 29th, 2015  
@pixiemac I agree too with that. I have got a friend who only had a count of 6.5 and he has had to have a triple by pass because of the amount of cholesterol built up in the arteries! But his father, grandfather and brother were all the same!
January 29th, 2015  
Awesome shot
January 29th, 2015  
great shot - such an interesting assortment of gravestones
January 29th, 2015  
Cute title for this interesting shot! Love the fog on the hill!
January 30th, 2015  
A very neat and tidy grave yard! Lots of atmosphere with the fog on the hillside! I can almost hear the dog howling. Oh no it's Finlay at the door waiting to come from the snowy garden.
January 30th, 2015  
@pamknowler This dog didn't sound like Finlay, Pam - more like the Hound of the Baskervilles!
January 30th, 2015  
Bep
Hubby and I are frequent visitors of cemeteries. This is a beautiful grave yard.
January 30th, 2015  
Great shot!
January 30th, 2015  
Great shot. You must have been quite high up to capture such a wide expanse.
January 30th, 2015  
@skstein Yes I was Sandy - at the brow of a hill before it plunged into a valley. Thanks!
January 30th, 2015  
Interesting that they would put it in the middle of the town.
January 30th, 2015  
@sailingmusic I suppose it was the edge of town way back in the early 1900's Myrna. This is the Old Cemetery and the newer one spreads over a nearby hill!
January 30th, 2015  
Bev
Great scene, Maggie. Fav
January 30th, 2015  
What a lovely view! Perfect title for it. Love the foggy mist in the image.
January 30th, 2015  
Ha Ha. When we were visiting our friends in Schnapper Rock in Auckland, he was giving us a tour of the area and when we passed the Cemetery, he explained that it was the Dead Center of Town. We laughed then too.
January 30th, 2015  
Good luck with the cholesterol stuff. I couldn't get mine down no matter what I did, but drugs did the trick! And this shot is really moving -- the combination of being a graveyard, but being in the middle of town and such a welcoming site.
January 30th, 2015  
I like this maggie Jan and i were up north last week and saw sign post that said Cemetery No Exit
January 30th, 2015  
Very interesting softness, and i love the color, Maggie.
January 30th, 2015  
@taffy I looked at the results 2 years ago and although some results are high, I feel that I have control. Will await the latest results. The lady (Charly) in charge of the Monuments, told us she loves walking through here!
January 30th, 2015  
@rupert There is one sign south of Dunedin saying, One Road, One Doctor, one Cemetery" or something like that!
January 30th, 2015  
nice tones of green, I like the way you cheat with your analysis ;)
January 30th, 2015  
@cocobella We will see if it makes any difference with the results, Corinne! Good to have a bike ride anyway!
January 30th, 2015  
Great shot - very atmospheric. A glass of red wine taken an hour or so before will also reduce your cholesterol reading significantly ... or have one anyway ... or two ...
January 30th, 2015  
Great title and shot Maggie.
January 30th, 2015  
.. that's no dog, its a werewolf! Great title and shot. Haha, love Maggie's idea!
January 30th, 2015  
Lovely shot
January 31st, 2015  
I like this view and the way you've processed it. Makes me want to know what is on some of those gravestones. Would some of them be for early settlers?
February 1st, 2015  
@tristansmum Yes some of them date back to the 1800's! So many stories and forgotten people!
February 1st, 2015  
Great caption, sounded like a spooky moment.
February 1st, 2015  
It's a pretty little hamlet. I bet people are just dying to get in there.
February 2nd, 2015  
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