Saturday, May 24, 2008
MEMORIAL DAY
I remember when we observed Memorial Day ON Memorial Day--May 30th
I can still see Mom and Dad cutting the peonies, filling buckets with water and then placing the flowers in the buckets. It was a challenge to get the buckets of water and flowers to the cemeteries without any spills!
One of the cemeteries was local and the other it seemed to a small boy to be miles and miles away. A hard ride in an old-fashioned car! Probably the cemetery was no more than 35 or 40 miles away!
My one peony bush is loaded with buds this year for the first time, as you can see in the picture below. Always before it has only had one or two buds. Sad to say, the bush is not going to bloom for the Memorial Day weekend but may be in bloom for the traditional Memorial Day, Friday, May 30th.
We have an artificial display to place on Karon's grave for Memorial Day. We had an appropriate one for the Mothers Day weekend. We will add our Memorial Display to that one tomorrow.
Thinking about the current Memorial Day and about Memorial Days of boyhood days, motivated me to take the following pictures in my yard.
Jim
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