The graphics for this article is very understated, and I think appropriately so -- the article is personal and mostly quite somber. The cememtery is nothing like the one I wrote about. I looked around the internet for one, but they were all unsuitable. So I picked this plain yet atmospheric photo as something closer to my intentions than how the actual cemetery looks today -- a fairlyland of flower, babbling brooks and bright colours. Yet the graphics are not quite as simple as they look. The lettering is double layered. The first layer is outlined by a diffuse red glow. The overlying layer is outlined by a sharp red edge that is the same Photoshop tool, tuned differently. There are four different fonts involved, though it isn't obvious there are more than three. The star is a dingbat from the 4th. font.

Someone told me they thought the photograph was of a cemetery in Mississippi... I think. I went back to Google and tracked the photo down, and discovered that in fact the cemetery is in Pennsylania. It is the Haine's cemetery near Wernersville, belonging to St. John's United Church. Wernersville is somewhere west of Reading PA, I read. The Haine's family donated the land around 1735, I think I remember, and most of the early burials were of the German settlers in those parts.