As Memorial Day approaches, I was reminded again that this is the time where family members wish they were nearby to place flowers on graves, but can't because of distance, health, or whatever. When you shop for those memorial flowers and wreaths for your own loved ones, why not pick up a couple of $1 bunches of flowers to place on those lonely graves where no flowers are placed? Do it for the family members who may not be close enough or healthy enough to do it. Do it for those who have long since gone but used to care for the graves. Do it, just because you're a family historian, and care about these who have passed before us. Do it, because it just feels good! It is a special feeling know that these who would have been without, can now show that someone cared! I do it in the cemetery where my Cowan family is buried and have taken care of their graves since I was a child. When my first child began going with me we found a child's grave without name but had the birth and death dates stamped into an old rusty pipe. When he found out it was a 6 year old child and no one took care of it's grave he cried and needless to say, we both did. From then on, for 35 years I have taken care of that child's grave and call it 'the baby.' Now all the members of my family who go over to the cemetery always check on 'the baby.' 'The baby' now has a much prettier marker too, made by the loving hands of my husband. I can't begin to tell you what a wonderful feeling it is. Try it, you'll like it. Linda