Tag: travel

• The Ghosts of Oakdale, pt. 1

  “The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.” –Percy Bysshe Shelley Founded in 1852, Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington was the first planned, rural cemetery in North Carolina.…

  Bria Rose

  July 9, 2020

  Death, History, Investigation, Life, Thoughts

  Bonaventure Cemetery, Cemetery, Death, graveyard, History, mourning, Oakdale Cemetery, Photography, research, travel, Wilmington, writing

• A Summer of Wanderings

  The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. Augustine of Hippo Since I was 5 years old, I’ve traveled almost every summer. Most of the summers of my youth were spent in France, but as I got older, I tried to get out into different parts of America…

  Bria Rose

  September 8, 2019

  Family, Life, Love, Photography, spiritual, Thoughts

  Boone, Cemetery, Death, explore, Family, Graves, Liam, memories, Ocracoke, Savannah, travel, Tweetsie Railroad, Wedding

• Bonaventure Dreaming

  Bonaventure is called a graveyard, a town of the dead, but the few graves are powerless in such a depth of life. The rippling of living waters, the song of birds, the joyous confidence of flowers, the calm, undisturbable grandeur of the oaks, mark this place of graves as one of the Lord’s most favored…

  Bria Rose

  April 7, 2019

  Death, History, Life, Love, Photography, spiritual, Thoughts

  Bonaventure Cemetery, Bonaventure Cemetery Journeys, Cemetery, Death, dream interpretation, dream meanings, dreaming, dreams, God, grief, History, John Muir, Life, Love, meditation, mourning, Savannah, Savannah Georgia, spiritual, Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt Georgia, travel, Victorian