Charnel House - Part I

A place or vault where skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction.

Yesterday I mentioned that something was revealed by the prescribed burn performed earlier this month.  It was this... 

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Even as the field is beginning to green-up with new growth the fire revealed the bones of butchered deer carcasses discarded and deposited over the years.  It looks - for all intents and purposes - like an ancient battlefield with skulls, leg bones and ribs laying about on the surface of the ground.

Slowly everything is returning to the earth.

Circle of life.