CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[LucienLeFranc]

What is lacking in background focus, is, I hope, compensated by having been captured at the witching hour as I took advantage of the warm Portland summer night to show my CB her new city on a two-hour "midnight cruise."

   

A clearer daytime shot of the sign:

   

Founded in 1882, Riverview cemetery was where the Portland Gilded Age who's who went once they no longer were.

In addition to the tombstone bearing their name inside the gates here, outside the gates, a street sign, a bridge, a park, a mansion, even an entire neighborhood keeping the name alive.

We meandered tonight, a looping two-hour midnight ride along Terwilliger, through Lloyd, over Abernathy, as Pittock looked on (If you're a Portlander, they're all as familiar as family) to finally arrive here: final destination.

But I find more interesting someone else who rests here, no memorial Portland street, bridge, park, mansion or anything else. For him, just a modest little tombstone under a small holly tree, because his fame was not here, was earlier and elsewhere, only on a tombstone here because his daughter loved him and wanted him close after all their lost years.

   

 In the town of Tombstone, however, no tombstone needed.