Matheny, West Virginia, USA

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  "Gone But Not Forgotten" is one of the most common and most famous epitaphs. And, sure enough, the octogenarian farmer seems still to be around. See him on the tractor? And, so do the family cows. See them in the field? Thus ends a month of farmstead panoramas. Palm Memorial Gardens. [2019]

Julesburg, Colorado

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  Here is a headstone that stands as a pictorial memo to all future generations: a view of the farmstead that shaped a generation or two of the family. Well into the future one of their descendants may come by and say: So that's what the land looked like before the new highway brought in all those housing subdivisions! Julesburg Cemetery. [2019]

Knapp, Wisconsin

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  Perhaps their farmstead was not picture perfect. Perhaps she wanted a single-story ranch house instead of a two-story farm house. Voila! It looks like she got it. Now, it is a picture-perfect farmstead. Forest Hill Cemetery. [2012]

Greenville, Ohio

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  The linework in the etching is just as perfect as this family's lifework on the farm. If they invite you into their home, you will find a pot of coffee brewing on the stove. What else could they be brewing? Greenville Cemetery.  [2018]

Herman, Nebraska

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  Focus on that one lone tree: Heading west you are, leaving the forested "back forty" behind and heading into the great American grasslands. Trees will increasingly be limited to the banks of streams (intermittent or perennial) and to the yards of farm houses where they can be nurtured into shade-giving maturity. Herman Cemetery. [2007]

Adairsville, Georgia

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  He (the one who "always looked for the best in others") is in the yard with his dogs. Cows are at pasture. But, where is the barn? Where will the cows be milked? Eastview Cemetery. [2013]

Chrisman, Illinois

Picture-Perfect Farmsteads:  That's a picture-perfect farmstead with picture perfect barns and a picture perfect driveway. Where is it located? In the heart of the corn belt. In fact, space for the farm seems to be carved out of the corn fields. Woodland Cemetery. [2014]