Day 1: Carved fieldstone in Southern Colorado 2007
Day 2: Carved fieldstone in Southern Colorado 2007
Day 3: Carved fieldstone in Southern Colorado 2007
Day 4: Carved fieldstone in Southern Colorado 2007
Day 5: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Day 6: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Day 7: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Day 8: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Day 9: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Day 10: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Day 11: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2007
Day 12: Carved fieldstone Southern Colorado 2010
Carved rock by Tom Mathies at the Keota Cemetery
Carved rock by Tom Mathies at the Pawnee Buttes
Carved rock by Tom Mathies at the Pawnee Buttes
"My refuge my rock of salvation!
'Tis pleasant to sing to your praises.
Let our house of prayer be restored.
And there we will offer You our thanks.
When You will have utterly silenced the loud-mouthed foe.
Then we will celebrate with song and psalm the altar's dedication.
My soul was sated with misery,
My strength was spent with grief.
They embittered my life with hardship..."
Excerpt from the Channukah "Rock of Ages" song.
Carved "moss rock" by Tom Mathies, photographed
at Keota Cemetery, Weld County, Colorado, 2010
3 comments:
Day 6 is my favorite so far. I like the "presence" of the missing piece, the abandoned, the lost, the absent.
Now Day 11 appears and becomes my second-most favorite.
I am drawn to the carvings that no one would call nicely done or beautiful but bear the marks of both pain and love -- and longing.
Imagine the unknown people who lovingly immortalized their mortal loved ones.
Somehow, I think they succeeded. Don't you?
Yes. All that is left of these lives are these simple but arresting stones. Mostly unidentified, save the occasional initials. An entire life reduced to an enduring stone marker in a forgotten field.
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