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This, too, shall pass
It’s a shame, really, that someone’s family spent a lot of money getting a nice, big iron urn for the cemetery, and now that urn’s disintegrating – ashes to ashes and all that.
It’s just a matter of time now, until the whole thing gives way. I wonder if anyone cares….
Oak Grove Cemetery
Manchester, Michigan
photographed 4.19.2013
Schoolhouse
You know that rule I have? The one about walking around back, to see what’s there?
Yeah, so I didn’t. It was cold. And windy. It was so windy that it was hard to hold the camera still enough to take a picture. But mostly it was cold.
Anyway: rules were meant to be broken.
Especially when it’s cold. And windy.
Sharon, Michigan
photographed 4.19.2013
Robots. Oh, and writing.
I thought this was the funniest store I’d ever seen. But I didn’t go in to see what their deal was.
It wasn’t until I was working on this post that I thought about trying to find out about it. Turns out, it’s way cool. Robot Supply & Repair supports 826Michigan, an organization that helps students learn how to be better writers. I’ll give you a minute to head over to their website to check it out.
Interesting, wasn’t it?
Anyway, now I wish I’d gone inside and bought a book or a hoodie or some coffee.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
photographed 4.19.2013
The cemetery
The historical marker at this cemetery says, “The history of this community cemetery dates to 1854 when 18-year-old Rebecca Chambers died and was buried here. Rebecca, who reportedly was ill while traveling past here with the family of her sister and brother-in-law, Nancy and E. G. Evans, asked to be buried on this flower-covered hillside. While the land was vacant public domain several other burials took place. There are about 65 early graves marked only by rocks.”
Something about a girl telling her family where she wanted to be buried haunted me the day I read the sign, and still sticks with me, and makes me want to post a dark and moody shot. Even though Rebecca Chambers saw it when the hill was covered in flowers.
Smithwick Cemetery
Burnet County, Texas
photographed 3.9.2013
Fenced in. Or out.
I like this fence. I like it lot.
My favorite part is that it’s not regular chain link. It’s a series of Ms, or Vs, or Ws – depending on where you start. I’m no fence historian, but I think that means this is old.
My other favorite part is that it’s not that effective – standing wide open and all – but that it takes it job seriously enough to keep doing it.
Marfa, Texas
photographed 1.18.2013
