Yesterday I accompanied Joe to a get together at a work friend’s home in beautiful and secluded Bellflower, Missouri. It was our first trip to this part of the world. Bellflower isn’t large in area and is truly in the middle of nowhere, seemingly consisting of mostly farms and gravel roads. The population is less than 400. Though that’s a very small population, I’m not sure where all those residents were, because turning from one long gravel road to another, we never met another human being until we reached our destination. As we were leaving, I asked our hosts if we’d find an old cemetery nearby, and fortunately the Bellflower Baptist Cemetery, established in 1841, was fairly close.
There aren’t too many times you’ll get me laying down on the ground with nature crawling all over, but for a great photographic shot in a cemetery, I don’t even think twice.
Interested in my other cemetery posts?
Walnut Grove Cemetery, Boonville Missouri
Assumption Cemetery, O’Fallon Missouri
Cravens Cemetery, Camden Missouri
Cemeteries: Concordia and Emma, Missouri
Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri
Forest Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Missouri
Lexington’s Old Catholic Cemetery
Machpelah Cemetery, Lexington, Missouri
Just a Stroll through a Random Cemetery on the Way Home
Adopting the graves of little Clara and Johnnie (most recent listed first)
Adopting Graves: Second Visit with Clara and Johnnie
Adopting Graves: More on little Clara and her Family
Adopting Graves: Some genealogy of our little Johnnie and his family
Adopting Graves: A New Autumn Tradition (2013)
October 14th, 2013 at 12:21 pm
Awesome photos Patrick! Especially the ones with the golden sun reflected off the stones and the one where you centered the sunset into the curve of a tombstone…beautiful. Pic number 10 just became my cell phone wallpaper. 🙂
October 15th, 2013 at 12:32 am
Yaaaaaay! That’s exciting! I’m glad you liked them. 🙂 Too bad this post was a bomb. Every time I get really excited about one, it dies. 🙂
October 16th, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Beautiful as usual, Patrick.
I know exactly what you mean about laying down to get the shot. It made me smile.
March 1st, 2014 at 2:46 pm
I am from Bellflower, Mo… Where is this cemetery ?
March 9th, 2014 at 8:08 pm
Hi Jim,
I wish I could tell you exactly where. We took one gravel road to another to another, and it was on our way back from a get together at the home of a colleague of my partner. What I can tell you is that it was very secluded and gorgeous around there. I wish I could tell you more.