Pictures by request

I was asked to post some pictures of the Reilly Cemetery as it was and as it is now. Frankly at first you could not see much of anything for the brambles and the trees. The pine tree limbs went pretty much down to the ground, the brambles grew up through them and it was bloody difficult to push through them to find much of anything. There was literally no view, it was just brambles. But if you look in these pics there are monument bases in them...

 

 

After the cleanup it was a lot easier but things were still pretty overgrown. Moss grows fat on a stationary Stone.

  

And here we have a lovely open space after the clearance days. What a difference! There was suddenly a view, and you could move without fighting a thousand thorns. This first pic is of north west corner and looking back just right of Rupert Union Cemetery. The strings and stakes were the grid I keep mentioning from which I measured everything.

Suddenly you could see the different plants growing here, in this case Solomon's Seal and day lilies. 

  

This is a picture of the center section, facing south. There was nothing to see before the clearance. Now it's a view that I have often enjoyed on my break-- that blue in the front left is Reilly Lake. Very peaceful...and remarkably few bugs too!

 

This is the south west area oriented somewhat to the north. Lots of lumps and bumps and bedrocks and now that the trees have been trimmed you can walk about without getting a limb in the face. Well, most of the time.

 So there you go, ask and ye shall receive.