poopscape sent in this photo with the comment: “Sooo, do 8 year old goths (in training) count too?   This is my daughter Eleanor and she’s loving on her favorite 130 year old Live Oak tree in the historic Glenwood Cemetery in Houston (Howard Hughes is buried there!) It’s so old that the groundskeeper says the roots have wrapped themselves around the graves closest to the tree.”

So you can train kids to become Goths? If so, maybe there is a reason to have children after all.  Although I fear that, even if I raised a child on a strict diet of uber gothness, I would probably end up with some kind of mega pink-loving teeny bopper regardless. 

But how cute is this Goth-in-training up a tree IN AN OLD CEMETERY?  The look of despair on her little face! The top hat! What looks like a black dress!  She’s lying on a tree that reaches out over a gravestone!  Could this get any better? I THINK NOT.  Well, it probably could if there was an absinthe fountain but that would slightly disturbing as she’s under the legal drinking age by a considerable amount.  It’s daylight but, come on, she has to go to bed early - she is only 8.

4.7 out of 5 - Damned kids, get off my trees!