I was looking for the living among the dead

I agree with Sam:

“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
― Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas

Nice to have a neighbourhood graveyard, and the rats add a macabre, Gothic touch.
And a classy photograph. You should include this in the Happy Fence Friday group…or not…

I'm with Sam, too.

And thanks for the group suggestions -- I'll do so. :)

Outstanding shot, with light and shadows at their best! HFF!

great!

Lovely play of light and shadow.
Belated hFF

HFF, have a good weekend

Wonderful composition with fine shadows,

HFF and have a good weekend!

Nachträglich HFF und ein schönes restliches Wochenende!

:) Thanks, all.

wel shown

I really like the dark tones in this shot. So, if someone who watches birds are called "birders," would that make you, in this case, a "ratter?"

Haar, i like that idea!

Unlike the birds, though, the rats are invited into traps that I set. I have some comparatively young friends who, upon learning their neighbourhood had rats, began a now ten-years-long programme of feeding them!