We saw a few birds including this Red-tailed Hawk!
Of course we were watching for water fowl. However this was the only place we saw any. Notice the turbulent water. It was a windy day.
The Coker Cemetery was our last stop. Moreover I didn’t have this one marked on my map. So I wondered if years past I thought the county road was a driveway. To be sure it is on my map now. 🙂 Cemeteries are great places to look for lichens, plants, and of course history.
So Clara Belle’s tombstone was highlighted with beautiful crustose lichens.
Up close!
This tombstone was hard to read. But if you rub shaving cream on the writing then the words will be easier to read. We didn’t have any shaving cream with us, darn. Its a mystery to me why lichens will attach to one substrate and not another; this one had few lichens.
A creature decided to make a home.
A large cedar had toppled in the wind, probably the day before. We had gusts up to 43mph then.
Even the metal gets lichens (the yellow tiny spots).
Yep, cemeteries are great places to visit. And this ended our drive-about.
Do you have your makings for soup tomorrow? Our low temp this morning was 27.6F. Definitely going to be new low for the day later.
Oh no! I missed a cemetery visit! They are always so interesting. I’m sad about Clara Belle though – only ten years old.
Yes sad. I like to think she was loved with such a nice marker.
Cemeteries are always fun. And yes Suzanne, sometimes sad
Lovely Chana lullaby
Beautiful lichens. Really sad how we have driven so many peoples languages to death or near death. I’m glad he spoke up.
And that his children are carrying the language on.