Wildflowers for the dead at Sutherland Springs Cemetery
How did I forget the name Sutherland Springs? While passing through this town of 600 people on my wildflower drive last Thursday, a riotous carpet of flowers caught my eye. I hit the brakes and pulled into Sutherland Springs Cemetery, then got out of my car to bask in the beauty. Jewel-bright wildflowers — bluebonnets, phlox, Indian paintbrush — flowed in broad rivers around the gravestones, symbolic of life and rebirth among the memorials to the dead.… Read More