Owen Phillips (Magic Lantern Show) recently provided me a link to a couple of photographs on another blog of mouldering children's soft toys decaying on a grave. I found a soft toy weathering slowly on a child's grave, today. I am not sure what exactly it is, but it is a very striking image.
a lamb or a dog? a large head for a dog. I wonder if there are any remaining family members to come back. Are there dates?
ReplyDeleteIt is almost like a puppy tale. Perhaps the ears have fallen away, but your suggestion of a lamb looks likely, now that you have mentioned it.
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Laurie
It looks like a stuffed duck. But that tail...well, I am not sure about that tail.
ReplyDeleteI remember when I was around 8 years old. We were staying with my aunt and uncle near where my baby cousin Sharyann was buried. My cousins, siblings and I stole all the decorations from all the other graves in the graveyard, to decorate hers. Hers looked so threadbare.
I had dreams about the ghosts of the people from the other graves coming back to haunt me. Silly wasn't it?
I'm not sure most people would understand the good intentions we had in decorating her grave so luciously with everyone else's decorations. But our hearts were in the right place.
Looks like a duck bill, but wow, so far gone to the far side of beyond... hard to say... Guess that knee of yours must be on the mend, because it looks like you covered a few miles today !
ReplyDeleteI have always found toys left behind on children's graves to be particularly poignant but equally, after being ravaged by the elements, it can appear quite creepy. My own experience of this was discovering a rotted and mouldy bear that was made out a wicker. Darkened by the damp, it actually looked very sinister.
ReplyDeleteThat picture speaks volumes, wow.
ReplyDeleteGreat photo!!!
ReplyDeleteVery sad and striking but a wonderful shot all the same.
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