Cemetery Timelapse with Clouds, Snow, and Grave Monument Shadows
Often, while I’m working in a cemetery, I will set my camera and let the video roll.
Cemeteries are such peaceful places and I find a slow rolling time lapse captures the placid nature of beautiful grave yards. If you enjoy my time lapses, please give me a “like” or share my video on Facebook. I enjoy being able to share my love of cemeteries.
In this time lapse, you can see the shadow from a grave marker move across snow covered ground. We experienced an 8″ snow fall this week and, as always, I made my way to several of the local cemeteries to check on familiar grave sites.
While operating my grave care business, I enjoy being able to spend lots of time exploring local cemeteries (even when it snows). If you have an interest in cemeteries and have ever thought about operating your own business, a Grave Care Services Company might be perfect for you. Read more about our grave care business course on our main webpage. Click the “Grave Care Business” link above.
Sunset In The Cemetery – After a Most Peaceful Day’s Work.
Today (January 5, 2015), the first work day of the new year, I found myself engulfed in projects I’ve been promising and goals I have wanted to accomplish since early December. Time passed seamlessly and before I knew the day was drawing to a close I looked up to see a most beautiful sunset.
The new year is a chance to refresh and renew and to set goals to accomplish.
In this new year, I know you have many goals of your own to accomplish. I would love to year your main goal. Is it to become more physically fit? Start eating right? Make more money? Find work you enjoy? Start your own business?
If you have read through this website, you have learned that we offer a professionally produced Grave Care Business Course. This course is designed to help you start and operate your own successful Grave Care Business. The course has recently been updated and it is a perfect way for you to start the new year.
If you love cemeteries and have ever though about start a business providing these services, this course is perfect for you. We monitor this site daily and we will ship your parcel as soon as we receive your order.
Grave Care this autumn will keep your business clients happy.
Grave Care in October, November, and December will make money for your business and keep your grave care clients happy.
Autumn is in full swing and grave care clients are mainly interested in Autumn Cemetery Cleanup, Tombstone Cleaning, Pre-Winterization Services, and Floral Grave Decorations for the upcoming holiday season.
September and October are behind us now and the warm early autumn days are slowly turning to blustery chilly afternoons as the sun dips lower on the horizon and winter approaches steadily. Still, even as the days become shorter, there is plenty of work to do in your local cemetery. We like to think of November as a breathing period before a very busy December making sure family gravesites are fully prepared for the holidays of December.
It is fun leaving a cemetery full of well maintained gravesites.
When families come to visit for the holidays, they are excited to see their loved-ones’ grave plots well cared for and they are able to pay their respects with a clear conscience that they have honored their family’s memories and done their part to maintain the respect their loved-ones deserve.
If you have ever thought about starting a Grave Care Business, our company has produced a comprehensive Grave Care Business Course designed to help you start and grow your own Grave Care Business. We offer 3 course levels and believe you will be very pleased with the amount of information, instruction, tutorials, video training, and business tools.
This van has already positively improved my effectiveness working in cemeteries. If you are thinking about starting your own Grave Care Business, proper vehicle selection will help your business run smoother and more profitably.
Functionality is one of the reasons I chose this van. In addition to professional appearance and proper service, the work van adds functionality to my business. Last week, I had a small landscaping job and the van proved its functionality. This job included hauling and spreading straw over a newly landscaped plot. Straw provides erosion control. I was not driving my company’s work truck when I needed the straw. So, instead of heading back to the office for the work truck, I simply stowed the seats in the back of the van and loaded the straw through the rear hatch.
Grave Care Business owners often have the need for functional vehicles. We often carry straw, tomb stone cleaning materials, or floral decorations. Owning a functional and versatile business vehicle greatly improves effectiveness in business operations.
Have you ever thought about starting your own grave care business? Whether you want to provide plot maintenance, tombstone cleaning, or other grave care services, our professionally produced Grave Care Business Course will help you start & grow your own Grave Care Business.
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Proper vehicle selection for your Grave Care Business will make a huge difference in the functioning and profitability of your business. Our Grave Care Business Instruction Course includes a Vehicle Buyer’s Guidebook to help you choose the correct vehicle for your business.
The correct business vehicle does not have to cost a lot of money. In fact, we outline great strategies in acquiring a great affordable business vehicle that will bring in more money for your business than it costs.
As part of our regular podcast, I filmed this quick segment to introduce the idea of proper business vehicle selection for people who are performing grave care, cemetery plot maintenance, and tombstone cleaning:
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Grave Side Flowers and Decorations for Mother’s Day.
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Mother’s Day is May 10, 2015. Most families will celebrate Mother’s day by buying flowers or taking their Moms out to lunch. Families who have lost their Mom’s want to pay respect to them and many families visit their Moms’ gravesites and take flowers for decoration.
Unfortunately, many adult children have moved away from their childhood hometowns and they are no longer able to visit their Moms’ gravesites. Still, they want to pay respect by bringing flowers or performing the types of maintenance that most cemetery companies do not offer. Detailed landscaping work (other than just mowing the grass) and gravestone cleaning are two of the services many cemetery companies do not offer. However, many grave care businesses do provide these services and right now is a very busy time for them.
Grave care is a niche business and most grave care business owners offer plot maintenance, floral decorations, and grave stone cleaning. Special days such as Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, and Father’s Day offer unique opportunities for grave care business owners. By offering the services that grave care customers desire, an entrepreneur can make a great deal of money operating a successful grave care business.
We love cemeteries and have helped many people start successful grave care businesses. If you have ever wanted to start a grave care business, we have developed a comprehensive Grave Care Business Course designed to help you start and grow your own grave care business.
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Our readers in England, Scotland, and Ireland also want to know how to start their own Grave Care Businesses.
Grave Care Business now shipping to England and all of Great Britain
Though the business program available through GraveCareBusiness.com is primarily developed for an American audience, many British entrepreneurs are expressing interest in starting their own Grave Care Business.
We have received a number of emails the last few months from inquisitive readers all over the world. Our readers in England, Scotland, and Ireland also want to know how to start their own Grave Care Businesses. Our overseas readers are interested in our work with gravesites and cemeteries and want to learn how they, too, can start their own Grave Care Business.
Our Grave Care Business program is generally designed for American entrepreneurs wishing to start their own businesses. Rules governing business registration and licensing, accounting and financial procedures, and other business practices may be slightly different in the United States than in the British Isles. However, since the basic strategies and tactics of operating a Grave Care Business in Great Britain do not differ significantly than operating one in the United States we have decided to make our business program available overseas.
If you live in Great Britian and you wish to order the Grave Care Business program, we do request that you use the link below to place your order.
Alternately, you may call us on the telephone and order directly with your Credit Card. If you don’t wish to make the long distance phone call, we are happy to call you. Simply send us an email at: info@GraveCareBusiness.com Be sure to include your complete phone number and we will call you at a time that is suitable for you.
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The exact moment of the Vernal Equinox in a cemetery – March 20, 2014.
Hi everyone. I just want to quickly jump online and write a short note. According to the great website www.TimeAndDate.com the Vernal Equinox happened at 12:57 PM today March 20, 2014.
I happened to be in a cemetery at that moment and took this picture. The grass is still a bit brown but trees are flowering and birds are chirping as the sun’s apparent location in the sky heads northward. Though there’s still a nip in the air, our temperatures will be rising for the forthcoming few months.
If you love cemeteries, like I do, you might be interested in starting your own Grave Care Business. Providing grave care allows you to make a great income by doing plot maintenance, floral decorations, tombstone cleaning, and many other similar services. You also get to meet wonderful people who are thankful that you are providing these services for their loved ones’ gravesites. Best of all; you get to do this work in beautiful surroundings of peaceful cemeteries.
The link below shows you how you can start your own Grave Care Business. We have developed a professionally produced Grave Care Business course that teaches you practically everything you could want to know about starting your own Grave Care Business.
Have a great spring. Let me know if you have any questions.
I was looking through some of my videos from the winter of early 2014 and found this neat driving video.
The scene is one of our local cemeteries and since we don’t often receive much snow here, I wanted to remember the serene, quiet beauty. Soon, it will be summer and 100 degree temperatures will make us long for winter’s chill.
Enjoy this. If you love cemeteries, drop me a quick note on the video or “thumbs up” and “share” it with other.
Do you enjoy searching for your favorite types of tombstones when exploring cemeteries?
Whether you like searching for wood, granite, slate, marble, or sandstone grave markers, spotting your favorite stele from a distance is always fun. Personally, I enjoy seeking zinc grave markers, among others.
Zinc grave markers are easily identified by the trained eye. In fact, with a quick scan across a large monument laden cemetery, even hobbyists can quickly find zinc markers. They just look different. There is something about their muted grey color that catches your eye and makes you linger a ½ second longer trying to figure out why that particular “tombstone” looks slightly different from the others.
I explored a new cemetery with a friend last summer. Her interest in cemeteries is new and budding. “See that marker over there? It’s metal.” I told her. “How do you know it is metal?” She asked. I told her to tap on it with her knuckles. She was amazed at the hollow “DING” that rang out but more than that she was amazed that I had used some “trick” to spot it more than 100 feet away amongst a sea of other markers.
Zinc grave markers have an interesting history. They were produced by the Monumental Bronze Company toward the last decade of the 1800’s and the first decade of the 1900’s. At first, the markers were not popular with families of the newly deceased. However, clever marketing by Monumental Bronze let families know of zinc’s affordability, long life, and easy maintenance. One other strategy used by Monumental Bronze was a change in name from “Zinc” to “White Bronze.” White Bronze markers became thought of as progressive for the new century and thousands were sold and installed in cemeteries all across the United States.
So, what is it about zinc markers that makes them readily identifiable from afar? Is it their subdued reflection of sunlight? Is it their distinguished removable panels? Is it their powdery appearance? I don’t know what it is but I do know that I recently discovered yet another method of finding zinc grave markers.
You probably saw on the news that we received quite a bit of snowfall at the end of January. Once the roads cleared, I trekked to a few cemeteries to check on grave sites. A zinc marker was along my path and I noticed snow appeared to be melting at a greater rate on the zinc marker than on nearby granite markers. My initial hypothesis was that the zinc marker absorbed sunlight a greater rate than the granite markers. With a quick check of my temperature gun, my hypothesis proved inconclusive since the zinc grave marker and two adjacent granite grave markers were of very similar temperatures.
Granite Tombstone Temperature Check
Zinc Grave Marker Temperature Check
Granite Tombstone Temperature Check.
What other factors could be at play? Since the heat capacity of a granite marker is much greater than a similarly sized zinc marker is it possible that granite takes longer to heat up and allows the snow to hang around longer? Did crinkled surface with lots of bends and different angles on the zinc marker better absorb sunlight? Or, was it a simple case of the snow melting equally on each marker but the wetness of melted snow dripping made a more dramatic color differential on zinc than it did on the granite markers?
Zinc Grave Marker Under Snow
Well, I am not sure of the answer but I do know that I now I have another “trick” to amaze friends when exploring cemeteries and looking for zinc markers.
What are your “tricks” when determining composition of grave markers? Feel free to leave a response below to let me know your favorite type and style of tombstone. What “tricks” or cool info do you know about them?
If you love tombstones and cemeteries, you might really enjoy starting your own Grave Care Business. I love cemeteries and I love being able to work in and explore new cemeteries all the time. If you are thinking about starting a Grave Care Business, my company has developed a Grave Care Business Course that will help you start and grow a successful Grave Care Business. The course includes a huge grouping of manuals, guidebooks, tutorials, video training, business tools, and estimating software.
For more information on the Grave Care Business Course, please visit our website: www.GraveCareBusiness.com
