Parting Shot — 5.24.16

Next to a line of flags set out for Memorial Day, Rod Roberts, guarded by his dog Sophie, clears grass around the grave of some friends at Fairmount Memorial Park Tuesday. Each year, Roberts goes to the graves of family members and a few friends, edging the grass around headstones in preparation for Memorial Day on Monday. “I don’t do it for anyone but myself.” He said he hopes someone in the next generation of his family will take over the yearly task of learning the location of the different graves he tidies each spring. “Maybe my daughter,” he said, adding that she is a busy adult who doesn’t have much extra time. (Jesse Tinsley/SR photo)