There's No Place Like Home

Gosh, Toto!  I think we're still in Wyoming!  There's no place like home.

 

Barrie has taken the snow plow off her work truck, and is now pulling around a lawn mower.

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More Cemetery photos

 

 

 This is probably the most interesting cemetery I've ever seen.  It is the Catholic Cemetery at St. Stevens.  I was there just before Halloween, and people had been busy decorating.

This is the grave of Donovan Blackburn.  He was a 17 year old St. Stevens student who had been killed in an automobile accident.  He was an athlete, a star basketball player for the St. Stevens Eagles.  There were two painted and decorated wooden crosses, both at the head and foot of the grave. 

 

This basketball, one of several that had been placed on the grave, was autographed, I assume by teammates and classmates. His basketball shoes are hanging on the cross, and have also been autographed.  The stones outlining the grave are round river rocks, painted white, with either an eagle or a basketball painted on them.  The crosses have beads and chrystals hanging on them, there are cans of Sprite, and lots of little "Casper the Friendly Ghost" statues.  And of course, lots of plastic flowers.

 

When I was there a a couple of years later, the wooden cross at the head of the grave had been replaced with a stone monument.