My mother-in-law is buried in this cemetery; it’s 600 miles from where we live, so our visits there are infrequent.

The last time we were there, it was early in the morning, and there was an old lady walking up the middle of the little cemetery road. From a distance – and even as she got closer – she looked exactly like my late mother-in-law. It was an odd feeling to watch her slow approach.

She spoke to us as she passed. Ghosts don’t talk, do they?

Anyway, this is a detail of tomb that’s in her cemetery neighborhood.

Kearney, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014