In Germany cemetery graves are not maintained in perpetuity so many choose cremation for their loved ones. Placed in biodegradable urns, the ashes may be buried by a memorial tree. Here is one such site. More than one urn may be buried near a particular tree.
The last person named was a dear friend of Ingrid and Peter.
Giant plantain by an almost thousand year old church near Schloss Cappenberg. Note the branch support.
Waiting for traditional four o’clock coffee and cake. If one is a little too late, all the cake will be gone. As our friend paraphrased it, “Life is long, cake is short.”
Stele’s by Marko Pogacnik, born Yugoslavia 1944.
Another of Pogacnik’s steles on the church grounds.
The Thinker.