Storytelling gravestones #26
This unusual gravestone is in Cedar Hill Cemetery, rural Ouray, Colorado.
Although I do not consider myself any kind of authority on cemeteries or gravestones/headstones and the traditions incorporated into their design, I have noticed that in the region surrounding Montrose, Colorado it is somewhat customary to record an abbreviated version of the deceased's biography on the stone itself.
Obviously the deceased's life was immersed in vintage steam trains as is depicted on and on top of his memorial. The angle results from settleing on the ground. A ground squirrel pays it's respects in the foreground.
Storytelling gravestones #26
This unusual gravestone is in Cedar Hill Cemetery, rural Ouray, Colorado.
Although I do not consider myself any kind of authority on cemeteries or gravestones/headstones and the traditions incorporated into their design, I have noticed that in the region surrounding Montrose, Colorado it is somewhat customary to record an abbreviated version of the deceased's biography on the stone itself.
Obviously the deceased's life was immersed in vintage steam trains as is depicted on and on top of his memorial. The angle results from settleing on the ground. A ground squirrel pays it's respects in the foreground.