Cemetery Jack

After a walk at the Reader Rock Garden on Wednesday morning, two of us took a walk around the nearby cemetery. It was so interesting to see the different kinds of lichen that were growing on some of the tombstones. A couple of the tombstones were shiny, black, polished granite (?) with a rose design engraved on them. Orange lichen had filled the rose design, taking hold on the roughened grooves. Looked quite pretty, actually. It was very sobering to see that SO many babies and very young children had died and were buried there around the early 1900's. I had seen a Jack Rabbit once before while I was driving through the cemetery and it was nice to see one again on this walk. Note the black tips to his/her long ears.