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Hooper

The helmet caught my eye – and it would have caught yours, too, I think – as it’s not a typical thing to spot in a cemetery.

Much sadness: Nathan Hooper was 27 years old when he died and had only been married about a year and a half; his safety helmet seems ironic.

Pontotoc, Texas
photographed 2.16.2020

death was the…

I was counting on my Photoshop skills to help me ascertain what this marker was trying to tell me. But those skills totally let me down, and now we will never know how the sentence ended.

My apologies.

Pontotoc, Texas
photographed 2.16.2020

I am the way

On a day when my only plan was to drive around and look at stuff, a road sign that said “cemetery” with an arrow pointing down a dirt road was a siren call. Why, yes, I believe I will drive down and see what sort of cemetery Pontotoc might have!

And that’s how I found out that, in addition to headstones and stuff, there was a stone Bible verse right there on the way in.

Pontotoc, Texas
photographed 2.16.2020