Photo of the Day (2.20.09)

It’s a “simple enough ritual,” wrote the author Philip Roth about the process of burying our dead, “as sensible a solution to the problem as any ever devised but one that is never entirely comprehensible. You have to see it to believe it each time.”

The Mortehoe Cemetery on England’s beautiful North Devon Coast is a see-it-to-believe-it occasion all to itself. Props to our ol’ buddy localsurfer , who took this photo [click to enlarge].

What better place to spend eternity?