Day of the Outer Range, 8th of Summer, 525 M.E. (Deneb): Another sunny day! Third in a row! I went for my alternating-day walk today, a Harrison, in the Cochran Shoals and Sope Creek areas of the Chattahoochee NRA. No new birds to add to my life list, but near the start of my walk I saw perhaps the largest rat snake I've ever seen, climbing a tree (naturally) along the river. Rat snakes love to climb.

Along the way, I decided - spur of the moment - to take a different sided trail and ran across an old family cemetery. No house or church exists anymore near the grave site, although I imagine that either or both once did. 

The monument memorializes the Scribner family, with each side inscribed with a different member - the father, Dr. Daniel, mother Sara, and two deceased children, Walter, 17 months, and Arthur, 19 months. The void awaits surely all them that weave the wind.

I don't know if they had other children who survived past them, but my heart breaks when I think about the tragedy of losing two baby boys. One is tragic enough, but two must be unbearable. Now, all that remains is a gravesite and an obelisk in the woods, in an unmapped spot off a side trail that few people use. Iubilantium te virginum chorus excipiat.

Impermanence is swift.