Too Many Tombstones - Not Enough Hours!

Mahon Cemetery - Great Village

So we are still in cemetery mode today.  We celebrated Canada Day with about 400 of my relatives again at the Mahon Cemetery at Great Village.  My list of family members buried there is over 19 pages long and each page contains about 40 names.  That's a lot of tombstone pictures!  We got part way done yesterday and were back there this morning.

There is only a narrow winding track leading to the cemetery where you can imagine a team of four horses adorned with black ostrich feathers, pulling a creaking hearse and followed by a line of mourners dressed in their Sunday best!.   Anyway - wouldn't you know it - we met someone coming the other way.  With a ditch on both sides, we each squeezed over as much as we could but unfortunately, he squeezed over a little too far and ended up stuck in a muddy ditch.  Ann came to his rescue by providing her cell phone so he could call a friend with a tractor.

As we were just getting into a good day's work the heavens opened up and we had to abandon the job for the day.  We did, however, manage to get about 150 shots before getting too wet so it was time well spent.

If you look carefully, you'll
see Ann's reflection in this
stone.

You can't measure friendship!  But what do you call it when your travelling companion cheerfully tromps over hundreds of acres of cemeteries, camera, scrub brush and grass shears in hand photographing tombstone after tombstone - hounded by biting insects and dripping from either a pouring rain or the heat and humidity with a big grin on her face and the awesome ability to see the funny side of things?  She may be directionally challenged and you may never find your way home if you follow her instructions - but then - that's what your Garmin is for.  Thanks Ann!!!

With the busy Canada Day weekend over, the campground is pretty quiet tonight except for the sound of the birds and the daily Via Rail train that passed fairly near us.  Yesterday the place was jumping with kids and bikes and dogs and lots of happy people.  Nova Scotians love their camping!

Busy week ahead.  We still need to finish Great Village and then we have Folly Village which is about the same size.  Can't wait to get going!

To be continued.......................