(aka flickr phobia pt 2, wherein I continue to review and upload photos, remembering weird things along the way…)

Another thing I’d somehow totally forgotten about was the series of photos I’d taken in Mt. Holly, NJ.

I’d just started a programming job in this smallish township, in a tiny, conservative, family-owned firm, when I noticed that every morning as I came down the street and passed the Sacred Heart Cemetery there were huge (huge!) turkey buzzards sunning themselves. Sometimes only a few, sometimes a dozen or more, wings outstreched on the graves.

So, after a week or two, I had to ask a coworker, “What’s with the birds in the cemetery?” They had no idea- no one- not one person of the dozen or so who worked there and passed the graveyard every day- not one of them had noticed 2 foot high birds with a 6 foot wingspan.

So I was outted as a weirdo. Ah well, it would’ve happened eventually anyway.

But I was so taken by the whole thing that took some photos one morning and sent them in to the guys at Weird NJ, who loved it and put the photo, first on their magazine cover, and then on the front of their book, along with the story.

Next time I’m in NJ I’m going to have to go back- digital cameras have come a long way since 2000.

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