We happened upon a small cemetery during our jaunt about Skagit County and decided to stop in for a look about. Nothing special, but there are a few markers worth commenting on (and photographing).
Little Ivan Solver, above, had a short, hard life.
This next gravestone is much larger and therefore marks the resting place of someone more important than Ivan Solver. Having a substantial stone with lichen and moss seems to be what many aim for.
But even here, in the resting place of Lutherans, we find an occasional stone that suggests a life lived at least a little outside the box.
Although I don;t know when Stanley Quande was born, it seems likely that he managed to survive the horrors of WWI and the terrors of the Spanish Flu.
No cemetery in the PNW would be complete without its share of residents from Norway. For some reason, Louis is asked to "Rest in Reace". Maybe there is a Norwegian thing going on here...or maybe the stone mason was having a bad day.
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