Kinfauns Cemetery

Not far from the Abernyte church is this graveyard in Kinfauns. I like the way the year is obscured by the moss growing on the stone.



Here, we have the face of the angel that seems to appear on many of these older markers.

Although this gravestone is only (!) from 1896, it is well weathered. Many heavily weathered stones are completely illegible, but this one was engraved deeply enough (and perhaps on a type of stone) to survive the ravages of times.

The yellow lichen on this one from 1812 gives it a brighter facade than is common on a gravestone.

Here, the deep red and bright white makes an interesting pattern and seems to fit with a stone from 1782. Just for context, in this year, Mozart completed the opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"), which premiered on 16 July 1782 and achieved considerable success. There was also the Haffner Symphony written this year. There are probably a coupe piano concertos from that year as well. There is something kind of "mozart-ian" about the combination of shapes and colors even though I'm pretty sure that few, if any, of the people in Perthshire knew who he was.

This stone is quite unusual. It seems to resemble a pile of stones around the edge while showing a flat face for the information.

Our last visit is to a stone from 1780. An elegant design in memory of someone dear to their family.