CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

[Tev62]

The inspiration for this months photo challenge was based on thoughts of my brother. I am one of seven children, the youngest, my next brother too me just two years older died of the dreaded cancer last year. He was cremated and doesn't have a graveyard spot. I always thought it would have been nice to visit a plot with a headstone but his immediate family had other ideas and I couldn't interfere. He had lived in Newhall, CA for over four decades and did well for himself in the pool and property business. He was a London Metropolitan Policeman but met an American girl after she crashed her car on a roundabout coming out of Heathrow Airport in a hire car. It was her first roundabout, she went around it the wrong way and he was the first officer on the scene. They all had a laugh, love blosomed and he left for LA and that was that. He was a keen Motorcyclist (an ex motorcycle traffic cop) but as his condition worsened he gave up his well used BMW GTL1600 and continued on his Honda Shadow 750. Eventually the Shadow got too much too and then life got too much. He battled to the very very end. An elderly parents death is upsetting but kind of inevitable and a given, it's tough to accept the passing of a closely aged sibling though. It definately reminds me of what is and isn't important in life as i'm sure it has the others of you sharing those stories. No sympathies required, seriously, life is just @~*^ty sometimes and that is that.