the festivities ~ halloween

{a dead butterfly specimen}

the end

a butterfly specimen is born.....

{Halloween costume progress}

travels + adventures ~ heritage square

More pictures from the Victorian Halloween festivities at Heritage Square..... you know those crazy old little houses off the 110 freeway entering South Pasadena. The best part was the staged Victorian funeral/mourning ceremony. I can never get enough hair filled mourning jewelry and post-mortem mourning photographs. These photographs served less as a reminder of mortality than as a keepsake to remember the deceased as photographs were rare and especially with children this might be the only photograph you had of them.

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the black cloth with the white ribbon covering handle is the Victorian sign of mourning for the loss of a young person & the wheat in the wreath represent the circle of life.