Driving down an unfamiliar rural Wisconsin road just as the light was changing from "great for photography" to "watch out for deer". I have a keenly tuned sense of where small rural cemeteries should be, and when I spot one its time to pull off for a quick peek. Any "Tree Shaped Tombstones"?
Yep. A rather nice "Tree and Book" specimen. Its unusual in that it has a really big book, so honking large it needs a special little cross piece to hold it up.
I suppose unusual thing number two is the long interval between the husband and wife being reunited at the foot of this tree. 1892 to 1932. Forty years.
Oddness is not uniformly distributed in the world. And this location had more than its share. Check out the name of the cemetery!
I remember Cylons from the cheesy Battlestar Galactica show. Malevolent tin cans....
Of course the name comes from elsewhere. Cylon Township was presumably named for Cylon of Athens. We used to live in a far more literate country.
And the weirdness keeps coming. There is of course a nice little church adjacent to the cemetery. Well kept up, there was smoke coming from the chimney so it is not abandoned.
But hey, what's that sign......
Rather nice lighting for the last picture of the day. The area out back of the church is some kind of dog obstacle course. Not sure if the hounds have taken over the building too, but as I saw no sign indicating a two legged congregation was still using it one must assume so.... If you have a naughty pup in the general vicinity of New Richmond Wisconsin you might want to check 'em out.
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