15 February 2009

Love and Death


Pod.

I've never been big on the "lover" aspect of Valentine's Day. For the past eight years, I've been spending it at the cemetery to visit my lola on her death anniversary. It's actually a nice place to spend any idle day-- trees, chatty plot caretakers, flowers.


Anthuriums.
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