The old cemeteries are wonderfully spooky celebrations of peoples' lives — with spacious tombs, sculptures that mourn, and tombstones that portray the deceased, as here.
It was spooky to stand in front of this tombstone, knowing that this gentleman's 200-some year old bones were 6 feet under me, even as he glowered like some forlorn ghost.
2 comments:
Thom,
did you take notice of the oakleaves ornament? Surely no spurious coincidence that Franz' family name 'Eichenlaub' translates into English as 'oakleaf'
Hun
Hun, I DID wonder about the oak leaves, but had no idea of the translation. Thank you!
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