day 243 of 365

Guess whose next novel (due out next fall)  is going to be partially set in Barnstable?  He stopped by the library last week for help with some research.  Click the photo to see one of the reasons I love my job.

day 220 of 365

An ancient family plot in the Lothrop Hill Cemetery -- most of the lettering obliterated by time and lichen.  I like how the larger stone leans gently towards the double one on the right, as if even in death they might move a little closer. 

day 57 of 365

Being a lover of all things old and historic, I often traipse around old cemeteries just to soak in the sense of the past that lives among the gravestones. My friends Sherry and her kids told me about a favorite stone in a cemetery nearby, and so I went on a hunt for it. She told me they used to visit her because they loved her name.


A few stones over I found my favorite...Freelove Crosby. A name equally comfortable in 18th and 19th century New England and 1960s San Francisco.