Cross Hops
The top of this monument in Ross Bay Cemetery was featured in an earlier post, Cross Sky, one of my favourite shots from this test of the Canon G15. This is a pretty stark contrast in mood to that theatrical shot.
I have to wonder if the Beavens drank beer. I don’t doubt for a moment that they would severely disapprove of these leavings, though I expect they were soon collected by someone for recycling.
Ada Beaven was a daughter of Joseph Despard Pemberton, Engineer and BC’s Surveyor General and Hugo Beaven was the son of BC Premier Robert Beaven – you can bet that the people buried in the ground enclosed by this granite curb were upstanding citizens of the uptight variety, especially by modern standards.
Pemberton named his house Gonzales after an early Spanish explorer and surveyor, and his house in turn gave the surrounding area of Victoria (not far from this cemetery) the name of Gonzales. The street I live on was at one time called Gonzales Avenue. So, even though I did not realise it when photographing this grave, its story leads right to my front door. Small town, Victoria.
You can find out more about Ross Bay Cemetery in these earlier posts.
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Canon G15, 6.1 mm (=28mm full frame), ISO80, f1.8, 1/60th +/- E.V. 2.0.
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burnt embers 
Party animals from the local high school or college like the nice grave sites best. Who could blame them, there is a nice place to sit and the local “residents” don’t complain. The five cent deposit on cans and bottles is no deterrent for these litter bugs either. Yet it’s the bottles and the disrespect that bring interest to the photo.
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Hi Ken, sorry for the slow response on these comments – I have had house guests and did not want to be doing blog stuff while they were here.
These residents don’t complain, though if they could, they would. And I completely agree, without those bottles I would not have run this photo. Well, in fact, I would not have taking this view at all.
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