Municipal Cemetery Offers Wide Selection of Free Bouquets
Fresh flowers are hard to come by, especially when you live in a warm climate, as we ephemerally do. These are that much harder to find when you add on the language barrier and my total unwillingness to pay any amount of money for them, but I've found a place that has a wide selection, always fresh, and unless I miss my guess, they're free.
The headline gave me away, I'm sure, but this magical place is a cemetery.
It's not magical in a "bunch of dead people in the ground" sort of way but rather in the less creepy, lower cost sort of "take what you want" sort of way.
Unlike other places with a great selection they have pretty much no security, since people are dying to get in, but never leave, and there aren't a bunch of people standing around watching you. I mean, there are a bunch of people, technically, but they don't speak up to protest, so I'm sure it's fine to help yourself.
I was more preoccupied running around and checking out the fancy stone and concrete decorations, so I didn't remember to take any flowers, but I'm sure it would have been fine.
Next time I go I'll totally check it out, though. All kinds of great, beautiful stuff, and there's a fresh selection every day so if I don't see what I'm looking for I can just come back the next day and poke around.
Further research tells me that doing this would be really disrespectful, so I guess I'll just admire them where they lie, but that's just as good to me. Last thing I want is the responsibility of putting them in water and throwing them away the next day when they're dead.
Where do flowers go when they die anyway? Maybe that's the thing, that the cemetery is the place for people and flowers once they're dead. Something I'll think about if I remember, but I make no guarantees.
Above - This is how big the florist shop "I See Dead Flowers" is, seen from the safe distance of my balcony. (Click to see full-sized picture.)
Above - It's hard to understand how many flowers they have, so click to see it bigger and you'll see, for lack of a better joke, the big picture. (Click to see full-sized picture.)
Fresh flowers are hard to come by, especially when you live in a warm climate, as we ephemerally do. These are that much harder to find when you add on the language barrier and my total unwillingness to pay any amount of money for them, but I've found a place that has a wide selection, always fresh, and unless I miss my guess, they're free.
