DV Chaz
@dv-chaz.bsky.social
A mix of Nature, Gardens, Art, Cemeteries, Memento Mori, Cats, Dogs, Kansas City things, and a bunch other stuff. I use my iphone to take pictures of things I like. 🏳️🌈
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🍁 Fall color is HERE! 🍁
The Garden’s canopy is made up of 5,500+ trees, representing 1,100+ species. Fall colors range from bright golden yellow to muted copper to deep scarlet.
The Garden's experts highly recommend visiting this weekend to see fall foliage at its peak!
The Garden’s canopy is made up of 5,500+ trees, representing 1,100+ species. Fall colors range from bright golden yellow to muted copper to deep scarlet.
The Garden's experts highly recommend visiting this weekend to see fall foliage at its peak!
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🍁 Fall color is HERE! 🍁
The Garden’s canopy is made up of 5,500+ trees, representing 1,100+ species. Fall colors range from bright golden yellow to muted copper to deep scarlet.
The Garden's experts highly recommend visiting this weekend to see fall foliage at its peak!
The Garden’s canopy is made up of 5,500+ trees, representing 1,100+ species. Fall colors range from bright golden yellow to muted copper to deep scarlet.
The Garden's experts highly recommend visiting this weekend to see fall foliage at its peak!
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#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning fan of pierced and painted wood, c. 1860
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November 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#TheVictorianBookoftheDead Mourning fan of pierced and painted wood, c. 1860
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Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
Lights were just recently added to the tower. I think it looks good!
Kansas City, Missouri
Lights were just recently added to the tower. I think it looks good!
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, Missouri
Lights were just recently added to the tower. I think it looks good!
Kansas City, Missouri
Lights were just recently added to the tower. I think it looks good!
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2/3 and another in the cathedral, this time a bat, and why not?
September 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
2/3 and another in the cathedral, this time a bat, and why not?
September 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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In our partnership with BeeKC we are having our first honey harvest on Sunday September 7th 10am-12pm! BeeKC will be joining us to show how honey is harvested directly from hives here in the cemetery. This is a free family event! Jars will be available for purchase to take honey home that day.
August 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
In our partnership with BeeKC we are having our first honey harvest on Sunday September 7th 10am-12pm! BeeKC will be joining us to show how honey is harvested directly from hives here in the cemetery. This is a free family event! Jars will be available for purchase to take honey home that day.
Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image3
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September 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image3
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 2
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 2
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 1
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Union Cemetery and the KCTV broadcast tower. Image 1
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
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It’s a coffin! A fine way to grab a death historian’s interest. This coffin pendant is a quite a bit smaller and its pop-out inhabitant is not faithful or a traitor but a memento mori skeleton. #thetraitors
January 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
It’s a coffin! A fine way to grab a death historian’s interest. This coffin pendant is a quite a bit smaller and its pop-out inhabitant is not faithful or a traitor but a memento mori skeleton. #thetraitors
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Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.
June 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.
A red fox at Union Cemetery in Kansas City. Morning of Aug. 22
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A red fox at Union Cemetery in Kansas City. Morning of Aug. 22
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UnionCemeteryKC.bsky.social
Earlier this year I took the first picture of this mausoleum. Recently I took the second picture. I remember reading about the bronze doors being stolen, soon after my first visit. Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri
August 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Earlier this year I took the first picture of this mausoleum. Recently I took the second picture. I remember reading about the bronze doors being stolen, soon after my first visit. Elmwood Cemetery in Kansas City, Missouri
Elmwood Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
August 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Elmwood Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
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Death puts on a happy face for #MementoMoriMonday.
Marble shrouded skull with hourglass, 18th c.
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Marble shrouded skull with hourglass, 18th c.
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August 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Death puts on a happy face for #MementoMoriMonday.
Marble shrouded skull with hourglass, 18th c.
www.dorotheum.com/de/l/1062637/
Marble shrouded skull with hourglass, 18th c.
www.dorotheum.com/de/l/1062637/
Elmwood Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
August 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Elmwood Cemetery
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
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Tomorrow is the day! We have a few tickets remaining and @thecleverbatlfk is ready to show us how to make our very own cemetery keepsakes using UV resin and fresh pressed flowers from our pollinator gardens. 🌷🌻
August 8, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Tomorrow is the day! We have a few tickets remaining and @thecleverbatlfk is ready to show us how to make our very own cemetery keepsakes using UV resin and fresh pressed flowers from our pollinator gardens. 🌷🌻
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"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
August 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
July 31, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered
Can you spot the beehives? They may be in disguise. How many do you see in this picture?
July 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Can you spot the beehives? They may be in disguise. How many do you see in this picture?
Hillside mausoleum vault
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, MO
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#cemetery #grave #historical #abandoned #ruins
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, MO
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#cemetery #grave #historical #abandoned #ruins
July 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Hillside mausoleum vault
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, MO
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#cemetery #grave #historical #abandoned #ruins
Union Cemetery, est. 1857
Kansas City, MO
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#cemetery #grave #historical #abandoned #ruins
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In preparation for August being super hot outside we've partnered with local artists to bring a month of DIY crafts indoors! August 9th we're joined by Aimee Omohundro for a UV Resin Class. Then August 23rd Kelly Aaron will be here for a Mini Headstone Making Class. Links in the comments
July 12, 2025 at 3:48 PM
In preparation for August being super hot outside we've partnered with local artists to bring a month of DIY crafts indoors! August 9th we're joined by Aimee Omohundro for a UV Resin Class. Then August 23rd Kelly Aaron will be here for a Mini Headstone Making Class. Links in the comments
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Memento mori ring moulded with a skeleton and coffin-shaped bezel containing another tiny skeleton, c.1727. #MementoMoriMonday
July 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Memento mori ring moulded with a skeleton and coffin-shaped bezel containing another tiny skeleton, c.1727. #MementoMoriMonday
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Whoops! That moment when you forget to post a draft until two days later: from July 4th.
Rebecca Littler Metcalf was born the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Research has found her headstone was engraved incorrectly adding an "e" to the end of her last name.
She died in 1861.
Rebecca Littler Metcalf was born the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Research has found her headstone was engraved incorrectly adding an "e" to the end of her last name.
She died in 1861.
July 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Whoops! That moment when you forget to post a draft until two days later: from July 4th.
Rebecca Littler Metcalf was born the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Research has found her headstone was engraved incorrectly adding an "e" to the end of her last name.
She died in 1861.
Rebecca Littler Metcalf was born the same day the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Research has found her headstone was engraved incorrectly adding an "e" to the end of her last name.
She died in 1861.