{"id":41067,"date":"2024-03-23T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T07:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=41067"},"modified":"2026-06-05T12:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:26:13","slug":"widowed-hes-pushing-up-a-daisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/widowed-hes-pushing-up-a-daisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Widowed: He’s Pushing Up a Daisy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Widowed: He’s pushing up a daisy — just one — at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. Photos by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I checked in on Jon the other day and found him right where we’d left him. He was pushing up a daisy. Just one.<\/p>\n

Jon’s grave is in the shade of a cypress tree, which is why just one.<\/p>\n

Across the way where the sun shines all day long, masses of the homely white blossoms speckled the lawn, heads ducked to stay clear of the lawnmower’s blade.<\/p>\n

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Daisies pushing up in the lawn at Cypress Lawn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Call it daisy, erigeron or fleabane, it’s no bigger than a dime and a common wildflower native to California. It’ll grow all over your yard if you let it.<\/p>\n

Some people pull it out. Try to. Others smile and let it stay. No matter what you do, this homebody will stick around. It’ll be in your yard, keeping you company till you downsize and move to another neighborhood. Maybe this one.<\/p>\n

More thoughts on the flora at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park at “There’s a Dandelion Growing on My Grave.<\/a>”\u00a0 More about those vegetables on Jon’s grave at “I’ve Been Widowed Two Years. Now What?”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Widowed: He’s pushing up a daisy. Erigeron — also known as fleabane because of its odor — is a ubiquitous, some say pesky, California native. They looked great sprinkled on the lawn at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park<\/a> the other day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I checked in on Jon the other day and I found him right where we’d buried him. He was pushing up a daisy. Just one.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[103,2838,2839,2840,187,34,2841,29,82],"class_list":["post-41067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","category-widowed","tag-aging","tag-brevity","tag-cyrpress-lawn-memorial-park","tag-daisies","tag-death","tag-dont-miss","tag-erigeron","tag-jon","tag-on-the-funny-side"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48812,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41067\/revisions\/48812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}