Woodlawn Cemetery
Woodlawn Cemetery is near the Tampa Heights area. It was Tampa’s second cemetery, opened in 1888 after the city’s first cemetery, Oaklawn, was filled.
An interesting article that appeared in the former St. Petersburg Times described plans to reopen the cemetery for sales of burial plots. Woodlawn is operated by the city of Tampa.
The photo below shows a plate of fruit. I think they are kumquats, or possibly mangoes that haven’t ripened. I assume this has some significance but haven’t found any relevant information. I have read that a certain variety of kumquat plant symbolizes good luck in some Asian cultures. Maybe someone out there can shed some light?
Great photo spread!
Whatever those fruits are, they aren’t kumquats – or at least none I have ever seen. Kumquats are about the size of a man’s thumb from the tip to the first knuckle. I’m leaning towards mangoes. If so, they look ripe to me.
But, again, the photography is spectacular.
June 25, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Thanks for clarifying, Jon! I’ve never actually had kumquats, and the photos I looked at had nothing to provide scale.
June 25, 2012 at 7:16 pm
These photos give me the chills. They are gorgeous! What do you shoot with and do you process in LR / PS? The cemetery ones in particular bring me back to my old days in Louisiana, when I would often take a late fall evening and wander around under those big, weepy oaks . . . thanks for sharing this beauty with the world.
June 28, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Thank you, Aleksandra! I’m using a Nikon D5000 (not even produced any more!) and Photoshop CS4. The cemeteries here are lovely, something I never expected when I moved here.
June 29, 2012 at 8:50 am
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The plate is of mangoes. These look very similar to those that grew in everyone’s yards “way back when”!
February 18, 2013 at 11:05 pm