Here’s another tombstone from Boston that caught my eye, if only for the juxtaposition of the skull and the cheery little flowers:
The tombstone reads:
Here lyes Buried
the Body of Mr.
Elijah Doubelde
Who Departed this Life
July 2, AC 1750 in y
45 Year of His Age
[...] Last week’s post reminded me of the pic below, which I snapped earlier this year in Spring Hill Cemetery in Easton, Md. I’m kind of jealous of someone whose surname lends itself well to imagery in cases like this: [...]