Son

Wieczny odpoczynek = Eternal rest

twins

Anyone who goes about to view a strange graveyard must have aspects of a melancholy nature. There is sadness. It is approaching an hundred years that these two boys died. They lived less than three weeks outside their mother's womb, and then they were interred into the womb of mother earth. If anyone had seen them alive, and is still alive to-day, he would be near ancient to-day. What can be said about infants, the weest of babes who never had much life?

August Birth

Birth is not the name one expects to see on a gravestone. Sometimes spouses have the same Christian names too. August & Augusta, Stanisław & Stanisława.

Ojciec=Father .... Matka=Mother
Prosza Ozdrowas Marya
Pray for us Mary

Kochona Żona

Kochana Żona
Odpoczywaj w Pokoju

Darling wife
Rest in Peace

Not everything is in English. Similar situations give rise to similar words. Whatever language a person speaks, he has the same emotions.

A man lost his young wife to death. She was about 22. They could not have been married long. Her enameled photograph is of her in her wedding dress holding a large bouquet of white roses. When walking, and reading gravestones it is often easy, and quick to see the sadness that visited strangers. Helena died as a young adult, and it is easy to conjecture she remained young in the memories of those that knew her.

not the way to go

I have already complained about memorial parks. In many, there are virtually only markers flush to the ground. Which makes it easy to cut the grass. The uniform grade makes it difficult in finding graves. If it were not for veteran groups placing disposal flags at veterans' graves it would be the same vista as an empty field.
Some people call this stone 'a sinker' when it is swallowed by the ground. The ground cover edges over the stone. It needs a grass haircut and brush. If the deceased's loved one doesn't police the site, it becomes invisible. The one above is not from a stepping stone graveyard, but imagine a field of thousands like this. Fewer, and fewer people will come.
This in Cleveland's Old Brooklyn Cemetery. They have some explanatory signs that are properly descriptive (Slovak Lutheran), silly (Roselawn, Sermon on the Mount), and ones like these, which sound like warehouse utilitarian shorthand.

disturbing ground

Gound is broken, and then the resultant hole is filled. Now some times, the same ground is broken again. People are buried, and occasionally disinterred. The casual observer months later may see the dirt settled, and if not planted with new turf, or something, can only guess if someone's remains are below ground.

a closer view, from a different angle

off by one

Humour is where you find it. Humour is predicated by recognition.

Now, hare is the general animal, and rabbit is a particular kind. In English, there has been some fluidity in word usage. Rabbits used to be called coneys. In Spanish, they say canejo: Dutch, konijn. Many people say 'bunny' to-day. Rabbits were baby coneys.

All Slavs have a variant of 'zajec' for hare, the several Jugoslavs have it for rabbit. Easter, and Western Slavs have a variant of 'krolik' for rabbit. The exact spelling in Slovak for hare is 'zajac', in Polish 'zając'.

The above photograph is from Sacred Heart Polish National Catholic Cemetery in Parma, Ohio. Notice the gravestone guardian supra, a graveyard rabbit.