Red Marble Slab

Green Mountain Cemetery, Longmont, Colorado

Two Pink Tulips

Green Mountain Cemetery, Longmont, Colorado

Alone

She's been without him for 28 years. Is she still alive or is she buried somewhere else? Green Mountain Cemetery, Longmont, Colorado

Two Dandelions

Green Mountain Cemetery, Longmont, Colorado

Leaves in Granite

Green Mountain Cemetery, Longmont, Colorado

Guess Things Happen That Way

Well you ask me if I'll forget my baby.
I guess I will, someday.
I don't like it but I guess things happen that way.
by Johnny Cash

Rivers of the Underworld

Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado

Styx: sacred river of unbreakable oath. Styx is also the name of a goddess and is the only female river. To swear by the Styx was the most holy oath a god could make.

Phlegethon: river of fire. It burns but does not consume.

Acheron: river of woe. The dead are ferried across by Charon, if they have been fortunate enough to have been supplied with the fare by their loved ones.

Cocytus: river of lamentation. Those who cannot pay the fare wander here, wailing, for a hundred years.

Lethe: river of forgetfulness. Drink here and forget.

Benjamin Skinner

Much Missed

Cemetery, City of Lafayette, Colorado

Framed

Columbia Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado

And Many Happy Returns

Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado

Black Urn

Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado

Stone/Stone

A stone ornaments a headstone in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado

Death Card: Arthurian Tarot

Green Mountain Cemetery

Some pics from Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado, in spring 2006.

Hills and Stones

Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado

In Memory of Eric

One Friday night in February, Eric C., 16, tried to kill himself with a drug overdose. He was mostly successful. He wound up in intensive care, his life hanging by a thread, and that thread tied to this earth by high-tech machines. There was no hope, though, and so on Sunday his parents gave permission to remove him from life-support. In this way they finished the job they themselves had started on Friday afternoon, when Eric told them he was gay and they kicked him out of the house. He was a sophomore at Fairview High School and an acquaintance of my children. I don't know where he's been laid to rest.

1932

Fresh flowers and plants grace the stone of someone who's been gone 70 years. Cemetery, City of Lafayette, Colorado

Gold Angel

Cemetery, City of Lafayette, Colorado

Famous

The Flatirons, world-renowned Mecca for rock climbers, form a backdrop to a headstone in Green Mountain Cemetery, Boulder, Colorado.