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All the new pandemic graves, 3
An overhead view of the increasingly-full cemetery. So much loss. So much grief.
(And now: 630 deaths, as of 1.16.2021.)
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.29.2020
Nathan Harvey, drone pilot
All the new pandemic graves, 2
Another drone image from the cemetery, where the rough brown dirt, and a plywood cover, speak to the community’s pandemic losses. And to all the families whose dinner tables, holidays, plans, and memories have been forever altered.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.29.2020
Nathan Harvey, drone pilot
All the new pandemic graves, 1
There were more new graves at this cemetery than I’d ever noticed before, surely a result of the 626 COVID deaths* in Lubbock.
I had a philosophical argument with myself over even making this image (and the two that will follow). It seemed intrusive in a way that my normal cemetery images don’t. But it also seemed historically important, also in a way that my regular cemetery images don’t.
History won.
Lubbock, Texas
photographed 12.29.2020
Nathan Harvey, drone pilot
*As of 1.14.2021.
That seems sufficient
I really don’t think that I would want to stay in an RV in a cemetery more than three days, but evidently over-staying was enough of a problem that a sign was required.
Loop, Texas
photographed 12.26.2020
cold cold death
I was a junior in high school when my grandfather died; the day of his funeral was bitterly cold, with a hard wind from the north. Of course, since it was in the 1970s and I was an idiot, I wore a very short dress that day, and it took me quite a few days to thaw out. It served me right.
The weather here reminded me of that day. But at least this time, I was more suitably attired.
Blue Hill, Nebraska
photographed 12.11.2020
One Day | One Image 