Women of Lit: A Safe Place To Share

I don't know if people still do this where I live, but there is an old tradition of weaving pine branches together into a "blanket" that is laid over a loved ones grave. I remember old ladies making them when I was a kid.
Here we use spruce tree branches, and they are not weaved, but set to decorate graves in late autumn, when it's too cold for flowers, until spring. If there's little to no snow, it's much prettier. (On a snowy winter it will all be covered, but we may dig some of the branches from snow at Yule.)
 
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