Visiting graves

Over on General Discussion, someone posted about visiting and decorating graves this Memorial Day, and it brought back memories from my childhood. There'll be no grave visiting in my parents' generation--they're all cremated and scattered. I do have deeds to a couple of cemetery lots--wonder if they're zoned for industrial development?

Anyway, when I visited my grandmother for weeks and weeks every summer, we made a trip several times out to the cemetery to mow and trim the grass on the family plot. I guess my grandmother is there now, too, with no one to mow and trim her grave.

My grandfather's grave was remarkable--it was a place where four-leaf clovers grew. I have never found one (except once when I found one pressed in an old book) except at his grave, and I found at least a couple of them every summer. I guess it makes sense; the four leaves must be a genetic mutation, so it stands to reason that there would be a good chance of their growing in a small area, like Amish people and maple-syrup-urine disease.