Friday, March 1, 2013

have you ever?

taken a drive through a cemetery?

its one of my favorite things to do...

this is the oldest part of our town cemetery...

and with the zoom of the camera...

I can see places we cannot get to in the car...

there is a path back to these stones...

but no paved road...

but they are there...

very old stones from when the town was first started...

there is an older cemetery just out of town...

its first...
but when the spring floods come, you cannot get to it...

so the land for this one was donated...

and there are so many I want to photograph...

and then do their family tree, if I don't already have it done...

so many souls have come this way...

full of hopes and dreams of a better life...

full of faith...

in God and all He has to offer those on this side...

and one by one...

they were all called home...

and I am amazed at the craftmanship...

of each resting place...
of their adornments...
of the time and labor that was spent, not on in each lifetime...
but in the markers of those gone home...

have you ever just drove around one?
just because?