Photo of the month
The beautiful ornamental cherry trees at the West Street end of Ryde Cemetery are now in full bloom and as the month progresses, gusts of wind will blow the petals like pink snowflakes across the road, the cemetery main carriageway and blanket nearby graves.
Spring is here! Well not officially until 21 March but a walk through Ryde Cemetery on a beautiful sunny Sunday afternoon says otherwise.
Holly is one of the most distinctive of our evergreen shrubs and trees. It is easily identifiable by its waxy, spiky leaves and clusters of scarlet red berries.
At the entrance to the Cemetery Lodge there is a beautiful display of Michaelmas daisies. These flowers belong to the aster family and aster comes from the Ancient Greek word meaning star, referring to the shape of the flower head.
The Red Admiral (Vanessa Atalanta) is a common and regular migrant to the UK at this time of year.
Here are the Family History Shrines RSHG members exhibited in the NEVER ENDING STORY exhibition at the Depozitory.
It has been a long, cold winter but at last the Cemetery is showing signs of Spring.
In January the weather was really cold and wintery and we even had some snow which caused the usual chaos and disruption to the Island.
