Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Your Neck of the Woods part 7 Galloping into Spring, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
You have NO idea, jeff, what the larger Cemeteries have as monuments.
Large--life-like statues of angels and grieving people.
The one with the moss is a small, ruralk cemetary and we never really cruised through it--
just enough to find our Father's grave site--spiff it up a bit and leave some flowers.

I could spend days in these kind of cemeteries.....just lost in awe...
I also hate the cemeteries we have here--you walk all over the graves.
That would be a total sacrilege in Latvia. Besides--as you sawin the moss covered ones,
a grave is always made like an elevated "bed"...right where one is buried.

Here are some monuments from the "National Cemetery in Riga (our capital).
A most sacred place--and very picturesque.

I k now I am digressing again--forgive me--but I want to show Jeff some of the monuments.

#2--was some kind of a Poet or auther
#4 was a beloved conductor of the Symphony
#5--main entrance to the national Cemetary


OK! No more--I promise.....Anyone want to see more--there's always Google.
G.