Death of family, partners, friends, contemporaries, and now along with blog mates is inevitable when you reach older years. It is what happens. I've experienced enough deaths in the last few years.
A week ago my step mother was buried at Moe Cemetery in the regional area of the state known as the Latrobe Valley in Gippsland. I had never been to Moe Cemetery and it was beautiful, with stunning views.
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The mountains are part of Australia's Great Dividing Range, which runs from western Victoria in an easterly direction and then turns north along the east coast, through New South Wales and eventually reaching the far north of Queensland. It's a major Australian watershed and the weather can be dramatically different on either side of the range. Our mountains are very old, well weathered and very rounded down. In the faint distance is the ski resort, Mount Baw Baw. The farm of my childhood was in the foothills of Mount Baw Baw. Closer at the far right I will guess as being Mount Erica.
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That is a beautiful view from your step mother's gravesite.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely that you can look out over that landscape and feel that it is part of who you are... especially when in reflective mode following the death of a loved one.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you'd both prefer viewing this together. Hugs, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteThe view is indeed gorgeous
ReplyDeleteDid not know you grew up on a farm. Beautiful view in that cemetery.
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DeleteWhat a beautiful view from her resting place. Condolences. You are right. We spend more time at funerals than weddings.
ReplyDeleteLook on the bright side - you don't need to give a present.
DeleteLovely and peaceful.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful there Andrew. You have experienced a lot of loss recently. I hope you are ok.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful Andrew. The loss of dear Sue is mighty. As we age, so goes the world and star dust calls to return us from which we came. I can never get used to it. Blog friends are like family and I'm at the age where so many dear bloggers have passed. Sue and I had daily emails for years. A massive hole in my email list now every day. You've had many in the past few years with your family and partner - the biggest loss of all.
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It is a very lovely resting place.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful resting place and the view is really a good one, Andrew.
ReplyDeleteIf the cemetery is full of trees, seats and views, people will want to come and spend time with their late parents etc. If it is wall to wall concrete, the visitors _might_ visit once a year just to leave flowers.
ReplyDeleteHels, while there weren't trees and seats, it is well maintained. You could sit on a gravestone with a parasol shading yourself.
DeleteIt is peaceful and a place to rest awhile.
ReplyDeleteSo lovely - a place for calm reflection.
ReplyDeleteI hope your run of bereavements is over for a long time now.
ReplyDeleteThats a pretty cemetery. A good place for a long rest
I am sorry for your loss; that is a lot of grief to experience in a short time. It sounds like Thelma found a peaceful and beautiful resting place with those amazing mountain views in the distance.
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Beautiful photos, it looks like a very calming place.
ReplyDeleteYes, as we are ageing time seems to speed up and so does the rate at which our loved ones and friends die. Its sad .
Alison in Devon x
You're right, the losses just keep coming. I guess it's inevitable but that doesn't mean it hurts any less. That is a beautiful view from the cemetery. It must be helpful for visitors to have such a view and reflect on the beauty of the land.
ReplyDeleteSo many losses. You never get used to it, but you get better at handling loss as you go.
ReplyDeleteYes, Andrew, just as people come into our lives, they depart too. Inevitable. A nice place indeed.
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In the last month, I've had three close deaths. Four actually. One involved my nephew and his son killed in a (literally) front page road accident. The next death involved a very close friends son, who was also killed in road accident that was in the papers. And then in the last week, the death of my sister. I have wanted to blog about it, to make some sense of it all in my own mind. Writing this stuff down can help, but I'm not there yet.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad's best friend of 65+ years just died a couple of weeks ago and he talked a bit about how death is a constant at his age (82). As a society we really don't talk about death and dying much at all, meaning it can be a difficult thing for people to navigate. Sending you lots of love Andrew x
ReplyDeleteThank you Fen. Society may not talk about death much, but my family has certainly talked about it a lot of late. I can't imagine having a friend for 65 years. Amazing. I am sure your father will miss him terribly.
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