adorned, that's a weird word, isn't it?

A Chinese couple had a son about 6 years old. The son was very knowledgeable about the afterlife. Bandits required the life of the boy in exchange for something. So at a predetermined time, the uncle brought the boy and met the bandits in a field near a high brick wall. Various trees grew around the wall. As a sign of the exchange, the uncle and the bandits exchanged flowers, one white, one yellow. As the uncle rode off, the bandits tied a silk scarf around the boy’s neck and sliced his head off with [a] sword. Two of the trees around where the boy was slain were surrounded by blocks, kind of like legos. Some were adorned with shapes of flowers. The blocks were all sorts of colors, which would change occasionally. The parents kept a painting of the field & the trees & the blocks in their home. The colors of the blocks would change in the painting. [I wish I could draw what the trees surrounded by the blocks looked like. They were pretty cool.]