#scavhunt – 3/6/2024 – I got TEARY-eyed this morning visiting my father’s and grandparents’ graves in Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, IN. Hoagy Carmichel’s grave is about 100 feet behind me here. My mom’s headstone on the left needs cleaning, but she is still kicking at 99.
I rode down to this statue on the Alexandria waterfront in the rain cuz I figured the rain was coming down just hard enough to make her look teary. Tbh I can’t see the tears, but my eyesight is such that I’m not likely to set that level of detail. I came home pretty soaked so they must be there. (Course the forum photo quality is a bit like my eyesight 🤦🏻♀️ so you guys might not be able to see them either…. 🤷🏻)
Hard to see, but the image within the TEARY drop is of statues depicting the crucifixion. Taken outside St Agnes Catholic Church (this was the motivation for the tears. Cell phones cameras are certainly challenging to convince to focus on an image within a drop. But this looks awesome even if the subject matter within the drop is not forefront).
The Peace Memorial relates to the Civil War. These figures at the top are Grief and History. The teary one, Grief, holds her covered face against the shoulder of History and weeps in mourning. History holds a stylus and a tablet that was inscribed “They died that their country might live.”
I got a bit teary myself thinking about it.
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