Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Oaklawn

My sister and I took a bike ride to the cemetery so I could sketch (and catch my breath).

This one got kind of out of perspective, but I like it anyways. The name was pretty degraded, but Claire figured it out by feeling the letters and looking at other nearby stones.

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There's a lot of these limbless trees all over the cemetery. In my gravestone symbolism book it says that they can mean that you were the last in your line, or that your life was cut short, or that you were a Woodsman of the World (which is an old fraternal society) This guy was 91, so I'm going to assume that his life wasn't cut short... While I was sketching a guy with a huge dog came by and tried to eat me (the dog, not the guy) He was very cute and fluffy though, so I forgave him.

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