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| This is a portion
of a display of antique crosses and pictures in our
home. |
Outside Reno Nevada.
It's always a little odd to see your own name on a gravestone. |
Can't Remember the Location.
This is a beautiful cross in marble. I wish I knew how to carve stone. |
New Orleans, Louisiana
Almost 200 years old!
(My
favorite Photo). |
Sacramento California.
A great look at gold-rush era stone art. |
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| Outside Reno Nevada.
I visited one winter and found the cemetery was covered in snow. |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
Outside Reno Nevada.
This is a huge white cross on a hillside, visible from Reno and
I-80. |
Can't Remember the Location |
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| Napa, California.
Budded cross. |
Can't Remember the Location |
Rescue Mission, Del Paso Heights, California.
Neon letters on white cross. |
Interstate-80,
outside Vacaville, California |
North Highlands, California.
I attended this tent revival. Great preachin' in the old-time
tradition. |
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| Bodie, CA. Grave
Marker of Rosa May. I bought a book about her at the visitor center. |
Near Zamora,
California. This is a beautiful little white church, visible from
I-5. |
Can't Remember the Location.
Byzantine cross with rays. |
La Jolla, CA
A beautiful life-size statue of Jesus carrying the cross |
Manhattan Island, New York.
Many of these 200+ year old stones are weathering away.
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| St. Paul park, San
Francisco. I used telephoto to see cross in a window on a building
behind the statue. |
Tijuana, Mexico.
This is the first thing I saw in the sky as I walked across the border. It
was made from 2x4's nailed together. |
Mt. Soledad, CA. Atheists
are suing the San Diego to remove this 90+ year old landmark. I was
interviewed by news cameras when I went to photograph it. |
Shopping
for crosses in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. |
As people filed
past the coffin at my Dad's funeral, someone laid a rosary cross along
with the flowers.
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Bodie, CA
Little wooden cross on un-marked grave. Bodie ghost town in background. |
Bridgeport, CA
I stayed at a roadside motel/RV park south of Bridgeport. The owner's
father had built this 8' cross up on the mountain years ago. |
Harlem,
New York.
A beautiful lighted cross. |
La Jolla, CA. This is a cross and bell tower that characterizes many
of the early California Catholic churches. |
China Town,
San Francisco, California |
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| Cross on old
wooden wall |
I saw
this cross on the tailgate of a truck in Avenal, CA. The airbrush work was
done in Mexico by a street artist. |
Cross made from
broken bits of automobile glass |
Crosses
in a jewelry store window hung alongside good luck charms. The shop owner
doesn't understand the cross symbol :( |
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