Symbolism of cemetery plants: How flowers, trees and other botanical motifs honor those buried beneath

If you visit a cemetery, look closely and you’ll likely notice many flowering plants – adorning the graves, or maybe even ...

We Found the Best Pumpkin Carving Ideas You’ll See on Every Porch This October

Bring the Halloween spirit home this fall by carving pumpkins. From scary to cute, this list of pumpkin carving ideas is ...
Daily Camera

Carved flowers from around the world to adorn new CU-Boulder building

Donors interested in giving to the Center for Community can contact Angela Farone with the CU Foundation at 303-492-4070. The University of Colorado will plant an iris from France on its new Center ...
The Greeley Tribune

Greeley Monument Works’ success is carved in stone

LINN GROVE CEMETERY – Snow covers much of their work here, in this garden of stone. It’s a history written in granite or marble or bronze; a family history, a country’s history. These are the works of ...
Inhabitat

Japanese wedding chapel is lined with intricate hand-carved flowers to connect the past with the future

Visitors to the chapel will need to travel to the Ana Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hiroshima, Japan. There, they’ll find a steel-arched dome, measuring 6m (20 ft) high and 19m (62 ft) long. The interior ...
Los Angeles Times

Vincent Palumbo, 64; Cathedral Stonecutter

WASHINGTON — Vincent Palumbo, the last of the stonecutters to work on the carvings, gargoyles, saints and angels that adorn Washington National Cathedral, has died. Palumbo died Dec. 21 at Washington ...