Photos by SForshey

old stuff

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My Dog

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I love his little smile! I took this with my old, old camera almost 2 years ago.

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I got a DSLR for christmas and poor Hardy has become my muse.

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Mmm! Snow!

Cemeteries

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Sunny Lake Park

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Chagrin Falls

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Cemeteries

Today, I decided to visit a few local cemeteries. The one I really wanted to visit is huge, with very elaborate tombs and grave markers (and a president), but it is 45 minutes away and it was closing 1.5 hours after I decided that I wanted to venture out with the camera today. So, I decided to stay local and visited 4 small cemeteries instead.

Ok, so let me just start by saying that I don't believe in an afterlife. When I die, I die; thats it. I do understand that many others do believe, and I'm ok with that. What I don't understand is why people leave trinkets on graves or feel the need to have grandiose headstones or mausoleums to entomb the dead. The pictures I took today are examples of weird things people leave, like small statues or a bottle of Bud, or the elaborate commemoration of a family with a plot that is sectioned off from those around it.

I guess I've just never really seen the point of burying people. I plan to have my body donated to science when I die, which inevitably results in cremation. I don't see the point of my body rotting in the ground for all eternity. Why not be of some use instead of taking up space? Not only am I going to be dissected and teach future doctors, but I won't be lying under 6 feet of dirt and clay, stuck in a silk-lined wooden box with sun bleached plastic flowers and a Harley-Davidson flag stuck in the ground above me.

Then there are benches. I have only seen a handful of people in all my 25 years (yeah, I know thats a long time) actually use the benches that they pay to have put at their loved ones' graves. So, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the majority of cemetery benches go unused. Why buy them if you are only going to use them on memorial day? Inevitably, you stop visiting the cemetery as frequently once your grief lessens and maybe you even forget about visiting at all. Which is why I ask, why a cemetery with the expensive gravestones? If you do believe in an afterlife, you don't need a burial plot with a bench and a grave blanket to talk to your loved one; you just talk to them. And if you don't believe, like me, then sitting there overtop their decaying body is pointless because they can't hear you anyway.

So, with all that being said, I posted pictures from the cemeteries I visited today. Even though I find the idea of a cemetery perplexing, I do find them beautiful and peaceful, and full of creepy trees.

Fall!

I was feeling like I needed some fresh air today, so I took my camera and drove to Sunny Lake Park in Aurora. It was a little chilly, but a perfect day for a little walk around the lake trail. I love this time of year! Its just so beautiful when the leaves start to fall. I also love when I need to put on a hoodie before venturing outdoors. Oh nostalgia! and football weather!

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