Glimpses and Haiku from Michigan

I'm on a week-long road trip with my aging and ailing father, exploring family history and genealogy. We're visiting cemeteries, historical buildings, and museums, among other things. I'm recording a lot of family stories, and taking a lot of new photos.

Here's the small, untended, ancient cemetery in rural Michigan, not too far from Lansing, where my great-great-grandfather, Marquis de Lafayette Durkee, is buried:



untended stones
lichened and mossed with time—
a thousand white flowers



sleep of deep time
slowly covered by green age-spots—
outcropped burial mounds