Garden as though you will live forever.

We are off on holiday! Tonight we shall stay in the port of Oban, on Scotland's west coast, before catching the morning ferry to the Isle of Mull.
By mid-morning we have got as far as Comrie and are enjoying a Cornish pasty from the village bakery. Where better to picnic than the kirkyard with it's ancient gravestones?
Scottish gravestones from the 18th century are often richly carved with symbols of mortality and immortality and with emblems of the deceased's trade. This is the lair of a gardener and his headstone is adorned with a spade, rake, measuring reel and line, and a dibber for planting tatties and other produce.
The floral rosettes at the top of the stone were very popular ornaments on gravestones in general but seem particularly appropriate for a gardener.