Holiday Visit To The Cemetery Nov. 17 2008

Barbara, Marilyn and I made a trip to the cemetery to decorate for Christmas. Also to visit for Dad's birthday which is tomorrow, Nov. 19th, he would have been 85. Marty's birthday is Dec. 29th, so we wanted everything to look pretty for the holidays. Everything was nice and peacefull at the cemetery, just and ocassional train whistle. Always a little colder & ALWAYS very windy there for it sits on a little hill and not many wind breaks except for a few trees that Dad planted. Mom would always say when we talked about going to the cemetery in the Fall, Winter and Early Spring, "It's always cold and windy!" The trees in the back ground of all these pictures were planted by Dad single handedly by driving out into the surrounding countryside and digging up little wild trees one by one, loading them in the back of his station wagon and taking them back to the cemetery to plant. This would have been in the late 60's. I know there were times I went with him and it was so cold! But that did not stop him!