Two hundred candles burning at Christmastime sounded beautiful to Mike Leavitt.
It was a custom a colleague told Leavitt about years ago, which the colleague did every year during the holidays at his Texas mortuary.
But Leavitt says he soon realized that, if 200 lighted candles sounded pretty, a few thousand would be even better.
"We want to do something spectacular," he thought back then, when he first decided to cover the grounds of his Ogden cemetery in December with 3,500 to 4,000 luminarias.