I recently went on a little field trip to the Marietta Confederate Cemetery. I have passed this cemetery many times in the 8 years that I have lived in the area, but never stopped to check it out. It is located off Powder Spring Street in Marietta, Georgia close to Marietta Square.

The cemetery began in 1863 and consists of the Marietta Confederate Cemetery and the Marietta City Cemetery. There are 3,000 soldiers buried here from every southern state. Improvements have been made over the years from local donations.

I thought it was a good place to learn a little bit more about my region while practicing with my new digital SLR camera. Before I was enamored with design and marketing, my first love in the creative field was photography. The recent purchase of a digital SLR camera has helped me remember how much I love taking photos. It will be a new creative medium for me that I am happy to embrace again!

If you have any tips or critiques of these or any other photo that I have taken, please let me know. I am still learning and all is fair game! 

 

In celebration of Albert Einstein, I would like to share a few of my favorite quotes from him.

This quote is stenciled on my wall, right above my computer, so I will always remember: 

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

Here are some other greats:

 ”A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” 

“Look deep, deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

“I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one’s livelihood.”

“Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.”

“I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart’s content.”

“Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” 

Oh Albert, how I wish that I could have known you. Happy Birthday!