SAN DIEGO — Inside Kerrie Rodriguez’s tiny flower shop in southeast San Diego, a vibrant Día de los Muertos altar honors the lives of strangers, many of them victims of violence and crime. The altar ...

It wasn’t until I moved to Los Angeles and saw people from all over Mexico honoring their dead that I built my first Día de Muertos altar 13 years ago. Now, it is an annual rite I practice every Nov.

A fresh flower altar is an altar for funerals created using only fresh flowers that are also said to have originated in Kyushu or Hokkaido. It is a site that gathered various works of such a flower ...

Those who decorate an altar with flowers are particularly privileged, and in a special sense cooperators with Him. For the flowers are His own; and all who come into His House feel so. The altar vases ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Inside Kerrie Rodriguez’s tiny flower shop in southeastern San Diego, a vibrant Día de los Muertos altar honors the lives of strangers, many of them victims of violence and crime.