As I walked further into the cemetery on Saturday, I noticed this grouping of Japanese yews around a mausoleum. According to the cemetery tree walk pamphlet, it's Taxus cuspidata 'Capitata', planted around 1890. This forest was probably not created intentionally. Imagine four tiny yew shrubs decorating the newly built mausoleum. They must have looked pretty cute. When planting, some people don't imagine that what they put in the ground will continue to grow over the next decades, over the next century, over the next 130 years... But this is the result:
On the back of the mausoleum, it reads "Miller" (click the photo to enlarge it)...
...while on the front, "Burger" is written above the door. I wonder what the relationship was between the Burgers and the Millers and who is buried inside.
Burgers need their buns... Buns need their millers!
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