fall colors

ribbons & stones

after this past weekend's jaunt, i'm 3/6 for new england state fairs this year. reckon that's a good enough percentage for me, though the squash and herb honorees at the tunbridge world's fair in VT were especially alluring...



i'd like to see the world distribution of 'largest zucchini' ribbons. back on the homefront, took an amble around mount auburn cemetery and found, among chestnuts and acorns, some good anchors..


^one of the best inscriptions i've seen, revisited.
--

To the memory

Of

David Patterson.

Merchant.

Who died at sea October 31, 1831

Aged 27 years

---

ERECTED

By his commercial friends and associates

As a memorial of their

Affection

And respect for his elevated moral and religious

Character.

---

“He sleeps beneath the blue (lop? Lap’d?) sea

He lies where pearls lie deep

He was the loved of all, yet none

O’er his low bed may weep.”

reburials

got halfway through a book by michael kammen on "the history of notable american reburials" before realizing that most of what i really wanted to know about that topic is summed up in one episode of the memory palace, "i have not yet begun to rot."

big-ear-a

mass(achusetts) graves

on elm st. in somerville, abutting parked cars & a bike shop.