{"id":29295,"date":"2015-10-31T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29295"},"modified":"2015-10-31T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T18:18:35","slug":"a-graveyard-of-watermelons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29295","title":{"rendered":"A Graveyard of Watermelons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went for a walkabout.  It&#8217;s a nice autumn day, it&#8217;s nice to get outside.<\/p>\n<p>The walk just so happened to coincide with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.blog.wordpress.com\/2015\/10\/23\/wwwp5k-2015\/\">Automattic Worldwide WP 5K<\/a>, a virtual 5K for users of WordPress.  It&#8217;s not really a race, and I certainly didn&#8217;t run.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll say that my walk today was part of that, though it was closer to 7K than 5K.  I went up to Dallastown (dropping off mail at the post office), then through town, over to Fruitlyn Road (stopping at a roadside fruit stand) which I took all the way over to Dallastown&#8217;s Walnut Street (stopping to explore a cemetery), and then back home.  I left at 11 o&#8217;clock.  I was back home at 12:45.  I wasn&#8217;t in any rush.<\/p>\n<p>What follows is a selection of photos I took along Fruitlyn Road.<\/p>\n<p>Farm country.  Cows are never far away.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_115021-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_115021\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29266\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_115225-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_115225\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29267\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_115231-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_115231\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29268\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In summer, this was a verdant corn field.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_115524-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_115524\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As was this.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_115856-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_115856\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29273\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here, we have a graveyard of shattered watermelons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_115959-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_115959\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The direction from whence I came.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_120522-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_120522\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Apple trees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_120527-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_120527\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29277\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_120549-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_120549\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I thought this might have been an apiary, but it&#8217;s actually a mausoleum.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_120647-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_120647\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It turns out there&#8217;s a cemetery there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_120850-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_120850\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was an interesting cemetery.  It appears to be new, like within the last fifteen years new.  All of the markers are metallic and flush with the ground, probably to make mowing easier.  I noticed that many of the markers have birth dates but not death dates.  I also noticed that the names in this cemetery were quite different than the names in the cemeteries in Yoe and Dallastown.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s this curious structure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_120947-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_120947\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29283\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a closer look, shall we?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_121306-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_121306\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ionic columns.  A sundial in the center.  It seemed, as I approached, quite&#8230; <i>pagan<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_121353-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_121353\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29285\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_121414-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_121414\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a patriotic temple of sorts further in.  I did not explore that.  Perhaps another time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_121900-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_121900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29288\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_121958-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_121958\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29289\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back on Fruitlyn Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_122311-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_122311\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29290\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_122322-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_122322\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29291\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_123316-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_123316\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29292\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/20151031_123932-1240x930.jpg\" alt=\"20151031_123932\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29293\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And, that was that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I went for a walkabout. It&#8217;s a nice autumn day, it&#8217;s nice to get outside. The walk just so happened to coincide with the Automattic Worldwide WP 5K, a virtual 5K for users of WordPress. It&#8217;s not really a race, and I certainly didn&#8217;t run. So, I&#8217;ll say that my walk today was part<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=29295\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A Graveyard of Watermelons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[3968,4093,4204,4203],"class_list":["post-29295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-dallastown","tag-life","tag-walking","tag-wwwp5k","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}