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The above sign is located just inside the entrance of Pine Grove Cemetery, Salem, NH. A cemetery is much more than that. It is also a wonderful outdoor art gallery with all types of carvings - and it's free!! It is a place where one can read the poetry of years gone by in the epitaphs. If you stop and look carefully at a gravestone you can possibly find out about the person the stone represents. Remember under every gravestone there is a story of that person just waiting to be discovered. It is a place of peace where one can leave their worries & problems outside the gate and walk in peaceful quiet, contemplation & become one with nature.
These two recently showed up. It's fun to watch them running & playing.
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There are many Chippies running around but this guy likes to hang out in the footstones that need to be put back in their rightful place.
Thanksgiving dinner? I counted almost 50 of them.
I found this Baltimore Oriole nest this Spring. It survived the ice storm yet it looks so fragile. In the past two years I have seen our resident Red Tailed Hawk but she is very elusive & I haven't been able to get a photo of her. How do I know she's a she? Because last Spring she lost one of her babies & when I found it she really, really scolded me! The one time she landed near me - read right above my head - where was my camera? Of course it was in the basket of my walker & I was sitting on said walker & didn't dare move as I wanted to just sit & watch her up close. Now the camera is never in the basket but so far this year I haven't seen her . I'm wondering if her nest was lost in the ice storm.
If you have made it this far, you might want to stop by and visit the Derry Museum of History.
