Dan's azalea is dead.
In 1990 I sprinkled a couple handfuls of his "cremains" under the vivid pink flowering bush I planted outside the family room window. The rest were shipped to the family burial grounds at Prairie HIll. His mother wanted him in the ground between his father and her. He would have made a face at that but I honored her wishes. Just kept the smallest amount of him planted close for whimsey.

I never expected that bush to die. It is six feet from a PJM Rhododendron planted by Q about that time. If you stood Dan up where the azalea bush was planted and knocked him over on his side his head would be in the rhododendron. That dang plant is flourishing.

Sedum will fill in the azalea area once the dead bush is gone. I can only hope Dan's ashes shifted somehow and are nourishing the PJM. Maybe his spirit stood up and was knocked over onto the nearby bush. But it is more likely Mother Maybelle got to St.Peter and learned I had separated her son at death.