These three photographs were taken at Salem near Memorial Day 2006. The views are (from top to bottom) looking southeast, looking southwest and looking Northwest. Nearly every cemetery in Iowa once was filled with peonies, most of which bloomed near Memorial Day. Riding lawnmowers, weed-whackers and general carelessness have been hard on these, since it's always easier to cut them down rather than trim around. But Salem has been lucky, and most of those planted on graves here have survived.
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