Thursday Trios
Tag: graves
a round of applause
Most flowers are round by definition, the petals, the leaves, even when jagged have no straight angles. These arrangements use curves and round elements to showcase the flowers.
These flowerbeds were created for the national garden exhibition in Brandenburg, Germany, in 2016 (Bundesgartenschau). They show examples of how graves can be planted, and nurseries from all over Germany had small, grave-sized plots showing examples of their work. Because of the spacial limitations the displays are miniatures with every plant, every petal displayed to perfection. In fact, I saw gardeners working on the arrangements with little nail scissors clipping leaves for optimum effect.
This is for The Daily Post and more photos with the topic of rounded can be found here.
Our obligation: peace
This is the war cemetery in Brandau im Odenwald. 461 dead from the first and second world war are buried here, among them soldiers, known and unknown, of various nationalities, forced labourers and displaced persons, e.g. survivors from concentration camps who did not return to their homes. Tragically, there are also a few graves of children who were born during this time to mothers who were deported and forced to work in Germany. The cemetery is cared for by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V., a humanitarian organisation whose tasks include caring for cemeteries in Germany and looking after graves of German soldiers and war victims outside of Germany, also helping relatives to locate graves of missing family members.
The driving ethics behind the organisation is to work for peace.
The inscription in the chapel reads: Our sacrifice – your duty – peace.
A list of all the graves and the people buried is kept in the wall and can be consulted by visitors to the graveyard. The individual graves are marked with names, dates, nationalities and, in the case of German soldiers, with their ranks.
The sign of the organisation with the details for donation. The words are the beginning of the German Basic Constitutional Law: “Human dignity is inviolable.”
pictures imperfect blog 