Noxubee Wildlife Refuge Cemetery

When I attended Mississippi State University, there wasn't much in the way of entertainment. My senior year of college ended up consisting of a lot of hiking, usually done at the Noxubee Wildlife Refuge south of campus. It's a beautiful park, full of trails, a lake and lots of small rivers, swampland, and this really beautiful field where a pavilion sits, into which my husband carved our initials before we were married.

The pictures I'm posting today are from a tiny graveyard that I, my future husband, and our friends accidentally found while searching for another, completely different cemetery. It was especially creepy, as it was unmarked, unlit, in the middle of the woods, and surrounded by barbed wire. It would have been creepy in broad daylight, and without the eerie drizzle.

We also ended up finding a really awesome abandoned barn down the street. I wish like hell I had taken more photos of it, but as soon as we entered we became distracted by the discovery of a female beagle lying down in the hay covering the floor, looking as though she hadn't eaten in weeks. We took her home, bathed her, and named her Daisy.

noxubee refuge cemetery