Day: May 17, 2010

My Garden, Photography

Raindrops on Irises

Shelly

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My favorite weather guy who screwed up Saturday’s forecast? He actually wrote a blog post to apologize for getting it wrong. As if he were the only one. Weather.com and our NBC affiliate were incorrect, too, but you won’t find either of them apologizing for it. This is why he’s my favorite weather guy.

In the meantime, the flowers are really enjoying all the rain. Me, not so much. A tree fell on a neighbor’s house (no wind, just super saturated ground), and I’m pretty sure a transformer also blew. We were without electricity for a few hours this afternoon. Yuck.

Cemeteries, Photography

Concrete and Bumblebees

Shelly

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Kevin-Lee Scroughan 1960-60 GS

This was yet another homemade concrete grave marker.

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Fieldstone Grave Marker

I’ve seen lots of blank fieldstone markers–just hunks of uninscribed, raw rock–but I’ve never, ever seen this sort of criss-cross pattern incised on a headstone before. I don’t know if it was preliminary to an inscription that was never made. If so, it would be unusual, as none of the other fieldstone markers in this cemetery were inscribed.

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Gilbert West Married Roda Laman March 20, 1869 Died April 30, 1906

This is the first time I’ve seen a man’s headstone inscribed in this way, with his wife’s name. Usually it’s the woman whose headstone says “Wife of…” Fabulous!

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Brown / Marion Lee 1862-1930 / Lourena 1864-1930 / Paul 1901-1930

I wonder what happened to this family, that killed them all at the same time.

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Bumblebees on Multiflora

It was bright and sunny while I was at the cemetery, but as I was driving home, I noticed the sky in the west had darkened. I got home just before it started to rain. The weatherman had promised that Saturday would be nice, BUT HE LIED!