Thursday, October 16, 2014

Like Some Forlorn Ghost




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:

  1. Thom,

    did you take notice of the oakleaves ornament? Surely no spurious coincidence that Franz' family name 'Eichenlaub' translates into English as 'oakleaf'

    Hun

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  2. Hun, I DID wonder about the oak leaves, but had no idea of the translation. Thank you!

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