I think I’ve done about 16 posts featuring cemeteries, but I haven’t done one for several months (May 2015). This one is opposite the Shrub Oak United Methodist Church. We’d been for great lunch to a Thai restaurant virtually adjoining the cemetery. While my wife was finishing her dessert (sticky rice with mango) I decided to poke around in the cemetery. It’s not a particularly interesting cemetery. It’s small, flat and has a few nice designs on some of the gravestones (see the rightmost gravestone in the first picture). No interesting statuary though. In fact I don’t recall seeing any statuary at all, interesting or otherwise – maybe this is typical of Methodist cemeteries. I know that non-conformist churches don’t much go for decorative elements.

Somehow this reminded me of an authority figure (e.g. a teacher, or a politician) speaking to a group of acolytes.

A mass of gravestones.

This is what time can do to a gravestone. The inscription was pretty much unreadable.

Although most of the gravestones were still standing, a few had broken and/or fallen over. The one in the foreground looks as if it won’t last much longer.

I didn’t include this one because I liked the picture. Rather I was appalled that someone had done this – desecrating a grave in this manner. The street is on the other side of these gravestones, which are about as far away from it as you can get. Whoever did this must have hidden behind the gravestones to do it. So cowards in additional to vandals.