A continuation

For more images of 'decorating' for All Saints Day you can go here.  I believe the holiday started with the Catholic Church, haven't researched that one.

This is what bothers me more than decorating for holiday's. I want to leave word for our kids that any plants and flowers left behind I would rather be broken down and distributed to home or hospital bound or even offices.

I much prefer a tree be planted in my memory. As much as I love balloons I wouldn't want them released to impact the environment in a negative way either.

Yet a funeral without any flowers seems so bare to me.

If it were mine I would of recycled ribbons off of these arrangements as well.

This is the grandiose type of display I really shake my head at. I'm not sure if this is one or more graves, or is this perhaps something the burial park had constructed? 

I could almost decipher a name at the one end.

I'd like to pop in their offices down there and ask about this and a shelter badly in need of paint, and a sculputre that looks like a book.

Many of the trees here are dying and they only have a 10 man crew for about 3 memorial parks. I think they gather water from the river running by to water and it would be better to use grey water for this. It is an old cemetary though.

The cremation areas are what leaves me rather 'cold' as they don't have the landscaping other areas do. In fact they take every inch of space they can get. Only one bench where Stacy is.

I'm rather reluctant to sit on someone else's bench. Strange I know. But if I were designing such a place I'd have courtesy benches throughout.

With the amount of money spent to remember some I can't help but wonder how much attention was given them while they lived. In the very old sections it is obvious no one ever visits. Gone and forgotten?

I remember an old woman here who had no survivors. When she was put in assisted living all her pictures were tossed in the trash. I can understand that no one knew who was in the pictures I'm sure. I'm sure the guy that benefitted financially from her death has never once visited her grave. Her story was a sad one too.

Just proves Eternity is what we should be preparing for.