Focus on Heritage Cemetery: Just to the north of Steinbach are Lakes Manitoba and Winnipeg (and so many more). Sailing the summers away must have been popular with the Wiebe clan and their friends. So much is captured in this simple scene: the love of place, the love of action, the love of friends, and the love from above . . . forever. [2012]
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The boat is a schooner: "A schooner has two masts with the taller mainmast in the aft position. This aftermast carries the mainsail. A schooner has three or four sails." As such it must have been at least 50 feet long.
ReplyDeleteSee:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~elfox/types.html
Owing to the environment, the bird could be a sea eagle.
For a photograph that closely resembles the engraved bird go to:
http://www.westhighlandhotel.co.uk/mallaig-more/marine-wildlife/
There, click on the 4th down thumbprint photo in the column to the right.
The similarities are convincing.
Sailing away from the shores, soaring into the azure, sea and sky coming together and infinitely receding into the horizon...
One would wish such a grave, from a cliff top , would overlook the ocean like Chateaubriand's:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tombe_Chateaubriand.jpg