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Concordia Cemetery - El Paso, TX
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El Paso,
TX is in what one might normally describe as a desert, but we've been having
some freakishly strong monsoons this year. I'm talking receiving double our
normal annual rainfall in about a month and a half. That's roughly 15" of
rain in 6 weeks in a city that has no concept of proper drainage. This has
lead to water pooling everywhere, tons of mosquitos, and jungles of weeds.
That's what brings me here today.
We have a fairly old, technically
"historic" cemetery in the middle of town that's usually a few acres of
headstones, dirt, and broken glass. Right now, though, it's hard to even
tell there are graves in most of the cemetery, so I decided to go check it
out. Photos ensued. Hope you enjoy.
This is me looking horribly geeky in my camo pants and month-old beard. I'm
5'9" so you can get an idea of how bad the weeds have gotten.
They've started trying to tackle the weeds, but that's just causing a
different kind of mess.
They also seem to be uprooting some of the grave markers in the process.
Just a few more shots of graves hidden in the weeds.
At this point in time my girlfriend and I got tired of taking pictures of
weeds and decided to see if there were any interesting headstones.
This is the section they have cleared out so far, with a shot of the lovely
Franklin Mountains in the background.
This seems to be a very popular name for some reason.
We saw no sign of the Zombie Bradford, unfortunately.
A slightly 
headstone.
More stones in disrepair.
Well, this looks like a cute little group of graves.
Oh... 
Some stones that caught my eye.
These were all in a row. Not sure why the last one has a different last
name.
Obviously, Masons were abound.
The lovely Mason memorial on the way out.
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