Single grave on the St. Lawrence River, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
(previous photo also from same location, Milton Cemetery)
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves –
or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth. Ayn Rand
Comments (20)
Wherever it may be it’s the waiting part that gets us. It simply doesn’t come as a result of waiting.
I love Kingston.
I’ve lived near there all my life.
My family all lives there.
So much history.
If I was going to be buried, that’s where I would want to be.
I plan on being cremated… and I will ask my daughters to sprinkle my ashes
somewhere I haven’t decided yet. My mom kept my dad’s ashes in her closet
for over 7 years. My sister and I finally dragged her to the lake and we sprinkled
his remains at sunset.
Eternity would be lovely there.
great pix…can we have it both ways?? lol Sassy:heartbeat:
That is SO beautiful. Thanks for sharing!:coolman:
no snappy quotes from me, looks like a nice resting spot…i hope there isn’t a 7-11 just across the way… ;P
Have you seen What the (Bleep)…? yet, M? I would LOVE for you to see it soon so that we can talk about it!
Lovely photo… and, guess what?! I got Solstice yesterday!!! YAY!!!!
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Yep I’d like to be buried somewhere as outdoorsy as possible. I see some cemeteries right smack in the middle of suburbia… What, even my dead body has to breathe smog? I don’t think so.
When you first said “lone grave”, I thought that you meant that this grave was actually all alone somewhere off in the middle of nowhere but I guess it’s just a little ways off from the others or something.
I like the vertical lines in the trees but I think I’d have liked to see the other side of that big tree on the left, splitting it down the frame isn’t working too well for me… But still a good composition!
-matt-
Wow. Very powerful. xo
a single grave…how wonderfully chilling…
Unlike Matt, I prefer your composition as is.
As for ‘the dream’, it would be nice if it could be achieved ‘here and now’, but alas, I am less and less convinced that that is possible.
Hope Friday night was good this week.
ok, i hate to toss a coin in the air to tell you which I enjoy the most, the picture or the quote.. they are truely married to one another to me.. so I’ll just say that it’s awesome…. well crafted on both parts. *~matthew~*
It seems almost – I know this sounds odd – but childlike – The colors and the light. A haunted child’s eyes…
Thanks for the comments…these are some awesome photos.
Wow….when I see something like this, my imagination kicks in and I immediately start trying to construct a life for this person. How did they live? How did they die? Why were they buried here?
I believe we make our own heaven on earth, or something near to that. We deserve to be happy, but no one can insure that but ourselves.
I would love to see what the epitaph says on this one and the dates.
If my spouse goes first, I will keep his ashes, so our children can mix mine with his when I die. Then our children can do with them whatever they want.
that is a Beautiful picture, it really struck me hard whern i saw it
Hm, I’m great now (or so my mom tells me), but my life isn’t heaven and I don’t have really high expectations in that direction. Ha. High. That was a terrible pun. So, I’ll take what I get…and hopefully be buried by some large body of water that I can lurk about as a ghost and freak adolescent horny boaters out.
Have no idea why that came to mind. Too much King Lear, I guess. I’m going mad! Oh, let me not be mad!