For the last weekend in February, the weather felt glorious with spring-like temperatures on Sunday. DH and I enjoyed knocking around town tending to some light shopping, and of course it was a prime condition for a local photo shoot. Let me encourage you to click the image to enlarge to enhance your viewing pleasure of today’s photos.
We ventured to a cemetery where more than 8,000 veterans are laid to rest on Tyson Street. In the center of the cemetery stands the American flag. Here, she waves proudly, as if to say to these brave men and women who slumber beneath her, “Thank you for your sacrifice”.
At the time, I did not realize when I photographed Old Gray Cemetery last fall that this cemetery butts right up to on the other side of the fence in this photo. This grave marker in the foreground is of a fallen soldier from the Civil War holds no particular interest, other than the grave marker itself. However, curious as I am I asked Google about this unknown man and luckily got a couple hits on Maj. Luther M. Blackman.
Sergeant Charles McGuire’s headstone sits apart from the many carbon copies in the background and immediately became my focal point for shooting this photo and draws my eye toward the Union Soldiers’ Monument towering the nearby graves.
From Tyson Street sidewalk, I snapped this picture which concluded my visit at Knoxville National Cemetery.
What captures your imagination to photograph lately?
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