I'm experimenting with uploading photographs. Sorry for the choice of photo. I really would like to be able to post my photo to my Blogger profile, but they want a URL. I haven't the slightest idea how that is done, of course. Someday JH will show me. Until then, pardon the experimenting.

Memorial Day Weekend.

I remember when my family referred to it as Decoration Day and we actually used to visit the cemetary and decorate the graves. This fell by the wayside about the time my family read an article on cremation. That was a big watershed on the use of cemeteries, I think. My father was buried in LA in a cemetery with many Mexican graves. At Christmas time, the Mexican families bring a picnic dinner to the cemetery and decorate the graves for the holidays, with Christmas trees (some with lights), wreaths, small momentos. The family actually spends hours at the graveside on their own picnic blanket, kids playing, barbecue oven smoking. Why are our dead so routinely abandoned, or cremated and scattered? What happened to Decoration Day? The dead in Christ will still be raised, I believe. How will that work exactly?