Tombstones covered in ivy or damaged by weather become lovelier in their shape, posture, colour and texture. Some inscriptions peep out from ivy fronds; some stones have been completely suffocated by plant growth.
Highgate
Highgate
Highgate
Highgate
Where there is a regime of herbicide, tombstones don’t get covered like this but the weather still erodes them or the ground undermines them.
MARSHALL COLMAN 