Williamsburg, Virginia

Ears of Wheat:  Wheat seems to be an ever popular symbol for memorializing the dead. Why? First, it is deeply rooted in scripture. Second, it is present at the communion table in the form of bread, symbolic of the body of Christ. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (John 12:24). Williamsburg Memorial Park. [2013]