I'm OBSESSED.
Basically living away from friends and family gives me too much time to think or something...because I have been addicted to winter, dead trees, cemeteries, and the dead quiet.
WINTER. Winter in general I have just been obsessed with. I LOVE going outside to a new snowfall. I love when it's so cold that you feel like you're inside a ginormous york mint pattie. You can see your breath, and everything is completely white, like the world is asleep and innocent again. I love being cold and I especially love that "chilled to the bone" feeling you get; like you are all hollow inside. Something is wrong with me? Probably.
I also just love that everything is dead. The trees are skeletal and bare and there are zero bugs. No humming buzzing, alive-ness sounds. I know that sounds morbid and creepy but I love that dead quiet sound. The only ambiance is the icy wind; like some sort of spirit... Anyways I love it because you can hear your own thoughts so clearly.
I also LOVE LOVE LOVE the cemetery. (Obvs.) And now that I have a car, I go there basically whenever I don't have work..... I don't know why I'm so obsessed with it. It might be because two of my favorite memories were going to cemeteries with Megan.... or just because it's such an escape for me; there is so much history there, and no one is around. Ever. It is the exact definition of "dead quiet". The cemetery is very thought-provoking and it always helps me put life in perspective again.
This is my favorite wintertime song. I listened to it when I was walking through the cemetery as the snow was falling, and it was so fitting. Also please enjoy some more photos from my cemetery wanderings!
My Edited Ones:
These two are my favorite; they are a husband and wife, and the inscription above is from the wife's gravestone: "She suffered much, she murmured not. We watched her day by day. With aching hearts grow less and less, until she passed away."
