Giant acorns serve as vases, and gray granite kitty-cats curl at the grave's foot.
That square is precisely the right shade of maroon, and it darned well ought to be. Bobby Schlitzberger had to special-order the granite from China. I stared, slack-jawed, at the photo on Bobby's desk. For a couple who retired in San Mateo, he carved a beachscape, complete with shrimp boats and a pelican perched on a stump. On one monument, he carved a '34 Ford.