#frozen ground

[johnschneiderblog]

Winter burial

I was walking through Leek Cemetery Tuesday when I saw the Sexton and his assistant hard at work.

"Tough job," I said.

The sexton shrugged and replied, "Some people just don't want to wait."

I had the vague notion that when a person died in winter, the body was placed in cold storage and the burial postponed until the ground thawed.

A did a little research and found that while cold storage for a few months is one option, some cemeteries use modern digging machinery for all-season burials.

I did notice that the Leek Sexton had a backhoe waiting in the wings.

[mumblelard]

or knotmakers have no saints

from breakdance to break down in your room with gated stoop and picket fence posture, the gaps reminding us we are only guests here where do you wander are you an eagle, we can't see so well this late are you an anchor, one of our favorite errors held fast are you the the bitter end better, untethered let go from the broken grammar of knots

[rubypomegranates]

"It was a dark, early March afternoon, colder and grayer than usual, even though the crocuses and the tulips were pushing their way through the frozen ground, eager to usher in spring. Yet Old Man Winter refused to relinquish his grasp."

Sarah Jio "The Violets of March"

[alteredstatesstuff]

cold land

[hudgenssource]

Vanessa via her Instagram Stories

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[bomgoyangi]

[unholytriumph]

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