morbid

Is it weird that I find graveyards so fascinating? There's one near my house that has these strange candles...when you pass it at night, different gravestones have a tiny little glow in front of them. It's absolutely surreal, but I adore it.

This picture was taken at Hickory Run state park. It used to be a villiage, but it was flooded in the 1800s. Basically, this rich dude built a dam, and it rained and the dam brokme down ( he had it made pretty cheaply) and a ton of people drown. The villiage was destroyed, and all that remains are a few buildings you can still see today. But if you go up in the woods across from the ranger's station (which used to be one of the old houses) there is a mini graveyard. It's where most of the people who died in the flood are buried, and it's amazing. So....I don't even know. The way the sun comes streaming through the pine trees, and the way some of the graves are cracked and broken, some headstones are only an upright rock, and there are all these faded silk flowers and broken candleholders...in front of a little boy's grave, I found a pinwheel, still spinning. It's beautiful. Maybe it is morbid of me, and maybe its only been in the last few months, but I love the peace you find there, where everyone is sleeping. Dead people can't cry, they can't freak out or hurt. It's the only place on this planet where you can ever find real peace.