{"id":769,"date":"2014-03-15T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T08:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2014-03-15T21:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T11:41:42","slug":"sad-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/veritysparks.com\/?p=769","title":{"rendered":"SAD THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only Saturday night, but I’ve already got that gloomy Sunday feeling. Perhaps it’s because night is falling earlier and earlier – and soon, when daylight saving’s done, we’ll be plunging again into the dark part of the year. So since I’m feeling a bit sad, here are some sad things.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I went out for a drive and ended up – as one does, or at least if one is out for a drive with me – at a cemetery. It was the Maldon cemetery this time. I wandered around, taking lots of photographs. Here are a few.<\/p>\n

From A Grave Look at History<\/em> by Lionel Gilbert I found out that the wreaths made of ceramic flowers, doves, hands and other death-motif items (all wired together under glass domes and placed on graves) are called immortelle<\/em>s. I have a few of these little bits and pieces because I when I was young I used to scavenge them – well, yes, it was<\/em> actually stealing – from broken domes. A bit ashamed of that, now. This immortelle, featuring large arum lilies, had lichen growing over the glass which made it look even sadder somehow.<\/p>\n

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And on that note, I’m going to resolve that since I had the ‘miserable Sundays’ today (a day early) I’d better\u00a0 have a jolly day tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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