I raise these stones... / Remember the lilac
Saw the lilac festival in Rochester in Highland Park. Perhaps the lilacs were a bit past their best, but they were still lovely, and other flowers and trees and blossoms were splendid. Some of the lilacs had tags describing not only their species but giving a person's name and dates and details like a memorial tablet, and this reminded me of the Grantchester walk from Cambridge, along which there were two stone tablets set under trees. The first (as one walked from Cambridge) stated:
In memory of
TOM SANCHA
1947-1992
Courageous gifted and loved
And the second, larger and more elaborate:
These trees, in memory of
Isabella Hamson
the beautiful Miss Drummond
were planted in 1978
by her husband
I know no more of Tom or Isabella, but as I read their stones probably many dozens of times when I lived and walked there I wanted to remember them again here.
Reminds me though that one of the things I had wanted to do before I left Cambridge was fund a memorial plaque on a bench in the Botanic Gardens.
In memory of
TOM SANCHA
1947-1992
Courageous gifted and loved
And the second, larger and more elaborate:
These trees, in memory of
Isabella Hamson
the beautiful Miss Drummond
were planted in 1978
by her husband
I know no more of Tom or Isabella, but as I read their stones probably many dozens of times when I lived and walked there I wanted to remember them again here.
Reminds me though that one of the things I had wanted to do before I left Cambridge was fund a memorial plaque on a bench in the Botanic Gardens.