Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Woodland Cemetery is old and in some places it shows. In some places the headstones are partially enveloped in huge trees that almost certainly didn't start growing until after the stone had been placed. In others the hill has changed shape over time and the headstones have migrated, in uneven lines, down the hill. The saddest ones, though, are the ones like this. They look like they were originally standing up but at some point fell over. Nobody bothered to right them and they've slowly melted into the ground. Within the next 20 years someone will fail to sweep the detritis away and it will grow over completely. It's already unreadable. Soon it will be completely forgotten. Of course, that's all just made up in my own mind. Who knows if it ever happened or ever will come to pass.
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