Joe and I found the example graves at the Koblenz National Garden Show completely fascinating. They were so unlike anything we’d seen. Some were as elaborate and elegant as a Japanese flower arrangement. Others were just downright different. Joe’s favorite by far was the specimen below, commemorating an avid bowler.
Yep, that’s a little bowling ball bush in the foreground, and those are bowling pins at the back.
But my favorite was this charming little number featuring a gracefully curved feather pen. Was it really–? Could it be–?
I examined the glass plaque, and there it was, below an entirely illegible signature:
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Schriftsteller. Writer. Author. Wordsmith. Gone to his last signing!
Photographs taken September, 2011, in Koblenz, Germany. Text copyright 2011 Clare B. Dunkle. Photos copyright Joseph R. Dunkle.