Friday and Bonaventure Cemetary

We had been asking about a room change for several days, hoping to get a refrigerator and microwave so we can cook and not have to eat so many meals out.  Today our persistence paid off and we were moved...of course, the move came after we had requested sheets and changed our bed and got a vacuum so we could clean the floor (the housekeepers can't service a room with animals in them.) We loaded everything up in the car and packed Lily into one of our grocery bags and off we went.  Our room is larger and it was a good move.

Otherwise it has been an interesting day.  We wanted to see the Coastal Botanical Garden and so after breakfast headed there.  Well, it seems that it is a work in progress.  The visitor center, seen below, has only been open a few weeks.   And it also seems that the entire garden is under construction.  We walked around but there was really nothing to see other than construction!

After lunch and our room change we decided to go to the Bonaventure Cemetary.  This is the Savannah cemetery made famous in the book, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil."  This is a huge Cemetary one must drive to as it is not accessible via the free shuttle or city bus.  Once we parked, we just started walking.  

The main road within the cemetery is lined with large live oak trees with lots of flowing Spanish moss.

Marty just liked the inscription on this grave stone.

The significance of the shot above is to show several aspects of many of the plots in the older section of the cemetery.  Note the family name at an entrance way into the plot.  Also, the plots mostly had raised granite borders around them.  This plot also has a lovely bench way in the back.

This shot above shows the boundary granite for plots.

These two shots show maybe the most unusual marker we saw. 

There are several large obelisks in the cemetery mostly centered in the larger plots.

Something interesting for us, above is the grave of a child where someone had left toys.  And we don't fully understand the edging then filled in with stones (although all were not).

Close up of the angel in the larger shot above.

Gravestone for two children.

Here are the graves of a husband and wife, the head stones are quite lovely and the edged area is just filled with grass.

We found this to be quite unusual.  The back side shows the "history" of the woman.

Really, this is a lovely memorial to someone who was obviously important to this community.

There is a lovely story behind "Gracie" so the photo below gives you that.

A section of the cemetery reserved for veterans of WW 1 and 2.

Two of Savannah's native sons: Conrad Aiken above, and Johnny Mercer below.

Mercer's wife Ginger.