Memorial Gardens
Notes from Cemeteries
I know I've passed one of life's markers now that I want to visit cemeteries. I remember being baffled by my grandparents' desire to go to the cemetery on Memorial Day. It seemed so morbid and a distraction from good barbecue. Now I like to spend part of my lunch breaks and Saturday afternoons exploring them.
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The Swell District
Hastings, Nebraska
The closest Menards is a little over an hour away in Hastings, Nebraska. I'm a little freaked out by the limited season of garden departments in the area. We're used to being able to go to a nursery in Southern California every day of the year for a wide variety of plants including vegetables for winter gardening.
. . .The Dew Point and Purple Coneflowers
. . .This country was mostly wild pasture and as naked as the back of your hand . . . So the country and I had it out together and by the end of the first autumn, that shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to shake. It has been the happiness and the curse of my life. — Willa Cather
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