Memorial Day weekend at Spring Grove

Sunday
As I was browsing local news on my iPad this morning, I discovered that Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum was once again open for walking it had been closed to the public for the last two months, open only for burials, with very small groups in attendance. Laura has seen many of my photos from Spring Grove, and was interested in seeing it for herself. So, after watching our virtual church service on line, we headed down there. Unfortunately, by this time, it was around noon on a really hot muggy day, so it wasn’t the most pleasant walking, but we did get our 10,000 steps and several photographs. My thumbnail photograph ( top right) shows the Civil War area of the cemetery, adorned with flags for the Memorial Day weeken, likewise one of the entrance roads, bottom right. Centre bottom is a striking tree stone monument, and bottom left the Johnny Appleseed monument. John Chapman (September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845), better known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman, who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, as well as the northern counties of present-day West Virginia. He became an American legend in his lifetime, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and the symbolic interpretation he attributed to apples. He was also a missionary for the Swedenborgian church.