I cringe at artificial Memorial Day arrangements such as these:
They were in one of the aisles at Wal-Mart. Sometimes, well a lot of times, I get judgmental about this . . . and I shouldn’t. I think they are in bad taste, although remembering someone certainly shouldn’t involve right and wrong in flower fashion. My mother tells me if we put something like this on my father’s grave, he would climb out and rip it off and toss it aside. So much for Rest In Peace.
I don’t think, though, he would think badly of someone who honestly thought it was nice putting it on a loved one’s grave. I believe he just wouldn’t like someone who knew his preferences putting it on his. Better a single flower, I’m sure he would think.
I was pleased to learn that the iris we planted at mom and dad’s grave were doing well this year, also the spruce tree we planted survived the winter. Unfortunately the gopher holes were many and so the water was just running into them but hopefully a few pieces of bubble gum will take care of those little buggers……
Give me real any day over the fake. But in our cemetery you see everything. There are families that make shrines out of ticky tacky stuff, empty bare lots without even a headstone, lots of lava rock, and of course gopher holes and rattlesnakes sunning themselves on the granite…. we don’t like the rattlesnakes of course.