Last week Cheryl and I took a drive out to the local cemetery which is an extremely important spot to Lithuanians. They maintain their family plots meticulously as well as visit them frequently. So this is always a busy place with many people painstakingly weeding and cleaning or visiting on any given day of the week. I think some of the older ladies also view it as a social setting....a place where they can come and visit with friends...both dead and alive.
We saw some very interesting headstones but I thought I should capture a few. If you double click on the picture you should get the larger version..( I hope). The first one was a woman named Kleopatra! The second just struck me because of the engraved featrues including the glasses.The last one in the row below, I really found intriguing. .. note the one person appears to have been 150 yrs old. So this was either one very long lived person or an error made by the stone engraver.
We even saw one plot that was well tended but in reading the stone it appeared that the couple that it was intended for, were still alive and well. It had their names and birthdates but no date of death. (Damn...forgot to get that picture....) So the care given to a future final "resting spot"drove home to us the status of the cemetery in Mazeikiai and Lithuania.
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