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Enter With Color - Quail and chicken eggs brighten up this old rusted gate. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Spring time is a special time of year, full of celebrations of life. Easter, Passover, Beltane, etc. Some Spring holidays have similarities and some don't, but generally they are a celebration of life whether the focus is crops, babies, a savior being reborn or living in freedom.
Six years ago Kevin and I started our own celebration. It happened something like this: After Easter brunch with a friend in Pittsburgh, Kevin and I returned to his appartment with a few extra hard boiled easter eggs in hand. Kevin's attic appartment in Pittsburgh was across the street from a beautiful cemetery, and as we were getting out of the car we started talking about how the graves should have some more color on Easter, and wouldn't it be fun to have an easter egg hunt in a cemetery.
So in we went with our eggs and started trying to balance them on different gravestones and see what interesting things we could do with them. Kevin pulled out his point-and-shoot camera and we began taking photos of our graveyard eggs. We had so much fun that when next year rolled around we decided to do it again. By then we were in California and we found a little cemetery on the way to Half Moon Bay and brunch. We were not totally prepared, but we had supplies so we dyed eggs in the parking lot across the street from the cemetery, using water begged off a nearby restaurant.
Since then we have continued bringing our little life and color celebration to a different cemetery every year. It has a feeling of recognizing the circle of life and death and how beautiful it can be. Each year our equipment, skill and ideas grow a bit as we add to our photo collection of Easter.
So here we are in year seven. This year we planned way in advance and even got goose and quail eggs to color so we would have more variety in size. As always we had a grand time and have a few photos to show for it!
Baby Angel - Odd metal grave with several cactus planted around it. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Mother and Son - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Makeshift Graves - Some of the grave sites had been set up by hand with personal items or handmade crosses. I love this mantel cross grave. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Speckeled - Tiny dyed quail egg in an old wrought iron fence. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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The cemetery we visited this year is St. Joseph's Cemetery on Mission Blvd. in Fremont. A small cemetery with a variety graves in different shapes, sizes and ages. It was a great find of a cemetery that we noticed on the side of the road on our way back from Sparky and Erin's wedding two weeks ago.
Palm Sunday - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Gripped - Gently balanced in this old wrought iron fence. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Blue - - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Lost in the Ivy - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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A Rose Is A Rose - Beautiful metal grave. The family name was Rose. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Soft As A Petal - Chevalier family grave with lovely stone roses. One of the few graves with color built into it. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Winnie the Moo - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Adornment - We made metalic eggs this year, this one looked great on top of stone crown. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Cherub with Quail - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Overgrown - I tried some different things this year, inlcuding this simple egg painted with vines. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Silver Scrollwork - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Backdrop - The Oakland hills look almost flat like a backdrop in some of these shots. I just love how it looks in contrast with the golden goose egg here. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Monolith - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Green Hills - This green (dragon's egg as Kevin and I call it) seems to take on the features of the hills. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Garcia - Beautiful Stark grave stone. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Silver Serenity - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Mother Goose lays the Golden Egg - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Protection - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Color Within - This stone looked it had been kicked in, but it provided a great frame. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Rainbow of Roses - A family plot for the Rose family. I liked the simple flat plates. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Topper - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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The Brown Bouquet - I love how this mistaken mix of dye created such and interesting coloring on this egg. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Flickr Flowers - Eggs in beautiful Flickr colors. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Pretty in Pink - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Medal Podium - Gold, Silver and Bronze - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Moo Story Hour - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Name in Lights - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Moosoleum - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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The childrens graves are always the saddest, and sometimes the prettiest or have the most special touches. While there were a few children's graves scattered all over this cemetery there was also a little section at the back by the field that seemed to be only for babies and children.
Little Family - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Rainbow Baby - I loved creating this beautiful tiny quail rainbow for this little baby. The baby graves are always the saddest. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Through the Grain - The weeds and grain stalks that have grown up around baby Rogers grave. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Beaded - Quail eggs again, they seem appropiate for the baby graves. So sad and the details in some of them are so sweet. This one was homemade wood with metal letters. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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7 Hours - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Egs Crossing the Field - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Nursery - This grave is fairly knew, the date looks to be Janurary 2008. It seems much more weathered than that date should warrent. I like how the pattern in the wood used reminds me of the crib and baby furniture my sister and I had as kids. I assume this is a handmade marker. So simple, sweet and sad. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Nursery Colors - Goose egg, chicken egg and quail egg look so at home on this lovely wooden grave marker. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Orange - The backside of this simple grave marker as it gazes off at the field and sunset. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Setting up the Shot - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Broken Hearts - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Pastel and Ivy - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Silver Angel - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Barnyard - The lamb and the cow egg. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Taking Wing - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Ghostly Easter Egg Hunt - Gotta love long exposure. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Egg Lineup - - Photo by Kevin Fox
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Colorful Toppers - Kevin expertly setup all these eggs for me. The sun was pretty much down so long exposure was a happy thing. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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"Tiny" - Part of the very large and old Mendoza family this guy seemed to have been a true cowboy. I just love this stone. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Where Do Cows Come From - One goose egg and one chicken egg ready for a life of grazing on these beautiful stone hills. - Photo by Rachel Lea Fox
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Also see past stone cold egg hunt photo shoots:
Egg Hunt - Year One
Egg Hunt - Year Two
Egg Hunt - Year Three
Egg Hunt - Year Four
Egg Hunt - Year Five
Egg Hunt - Year Six
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