Graveyard Shift

As my previous moblog entry showed, I was awake at an ungodly hour in order to make an 8am meeting in a graveyard, bizarrely I wasn’t even sure if I was going to go right up to last night…

At the AFPG meeting on Tuesday, an idea of a photostroll in Oakland Cemetery on Saturday morning at 8am was thrown up, now I’m just getting out of bed at 8am, let alone being in Atlanta at that time, so I said maybe… Maybe with intentions to pass. But for some reason I passed out while watching the Phoenix Suns at Atlanta Hawks game on Fox Sports last night (no, the Hawks werent that bad (besides, I’m a longtime Suns fan)) and woke up at 3am after a most bizarre dream, the details of which I wont go into… By bizarre coincidence, this was the time I jokingly said I’d have to be awake at in order to make it in the planning thread on Flickr.

So at 3am I had nothing better to do than kill some time, so I left home at 6:45 and made it to Oakland at around 8, no thanks to MARTA (a theme from the last photostroll). A good number of people, around 23, also made the early morning pilgrimage to the cemetery to walk about, chew the fat and take some pictures of the gravestones and sights surrounding them, and at 8am it’s a fantastic place… Very peaceful, a million miles away from Atlanta as we know it, even though the skyline looms large. Anyways, I tried to avoid taking pictures of headstones and headstones alone, so I amused myself with the vistas afforded to me by the cemetery, but I did hunt down Gone With The Wind author Margaret Mitchell’s marker, which is hidden away round the back of the Mitchell/Marsh plot.

Oakland Cemetery Photostroll

Originally uploaded by FLC.