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[wickedflea]

All the graveyard shots are from Live Oak Cemetery in Selma, AL, which I didn't know anything about and just happened across. A lot of Confederate graves are there, as well as not one but TWO monuments to nutjob CSA general and eventual KKK Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest.



A wonderful old house in Greensboro, AL. I wanted to go in, but there was a fair amount of activity going on in the area and I didn't want to get busted. I did get a couple of shots through the door and a broken window. I could SMELL the age of the house.



Lots of graves were adorned with little Confederate flags.




























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Comments

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, I lovelovelove old houses. Makes me miss childhood. :(

But, uh, 'wizard of the saddle'? LOL

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

LOL, I know! I should have posted an explanation of that--really I should go back and edit this post. The "Wizard of the Saddle" is Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general who ALSO went on to be the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. This is in Selma, AL, which is famous for the Selma-Montgomery marches.

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

"Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan."

oh
my
GOD.

D:

I still find it hilarious that these KKK assholes call their leader the 'grand wizard.' Might as well call him the Grand Poobah (no offense to Fred Flintstone).

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know, it's ridiculous. What kills me is that their hats look like dunce caps.

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

I KNOW I LOVE THAT SO HARD.

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

next time you go gravestompin', TAKE ME WITH YOU, DAMMIT!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Come on out, and do it soon!

[4hour-ramona.livejournal.com]

is it hot down there? are there bugs?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Um, yes on both counts. :( Oh my GOD, I forgot to mention the bugs yesterday. There were so many gnats that every time I stopped moving, they swarmed me. I think I even inhaled a couple. I was lucky, though, that they were just gnats and not mosquitoes or anything bitey--if they had been, I'd have been meat, cuz those things always eat me alive.

[shlorp.livejournal.com]

You live in a BEAUTIFUL place and you have a VERY good photographer's eye.


A+

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Thank ya! This is maybe 90 miles or so from where I live, but yes--Alabama probably doesn't get enough credit for its beauty.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

How close is that to New Orleans? The cemetery and some of the houses remind me of it. :)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I know, I was thinking that yesterday! It's a pretty good little haul from NOLA, though--probably 300 miles or so.

[jetgirl23.livejournal.com]

Wow, these pictures are great! Um, creepy...yes. Hey, move those trees and that house out to me will ya?

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

It's such a shame that these old houses are just sitting there rotting in some of these little places that are little more than ghost towns. (There are many all over the south that are well-kept, though.) If they were in some parts of the country, they'd be worth millions.

[miladyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

Seeing that gorgeous house in such a state - it hurts my soul. Ugh.

Gorgeous photos though, love the Spanish moss. Even though I just got back from SC last night, I'm already homesick!

[davesslave.livejournal.com]

I love old houses, although it breaks my heart to see them slowly rot away without anyone giving it a facelift.

The graveyard is beautiful but creepy, given what is there.