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Fairmount Cemetery
Aug. 23rd, 2021 10:33 pmMy original hope was that we'd start with one of our farther-away "targets" for a hike or something, but unfortunately, Alex did something ("something" here means "nothing more than walking across the room") and hurt his ankle last night. It was still bothering him pretty badly this morning, so we didn't want to risk either a far-away thing, or anything that cost money, in case we had to turn around and come back.
So we picked one of the nearby cemeteries we'd been wanting to visit: Fairmount.
Fairmount Cemetery is an enormous (280 acre) cemetery in Denver. It was founded in 1890, and is still active. It has some lovely historic markers and above-ground crypts, including some with stained glass. (The Fairmount Mausoleum has a very extensive collection of stained glass, apparently, but we didn't go in there because Cy was with us.) We mostly drove around, getting out when we saw something interesting, both to spare Alex's ankle, and because it was pretty warm, and the dog is a weenie. There were also lots of little gnat-type bugs that mostly left me alone, but were driving Alex nuts.
The Little Ivy Chapel
One of the older crypts. I like the statue on top.
A nice bit of stained glass in a different crypt.
( Thirteen more pictures below the cut, including my favorite stained glass: )
Then we came home and took brief naps. Then went back out to buy crickets for Broccoli Cheddar Bomb, and dinner for us. Alex bought me roses. <3 And then we got home and Cy went ballistic over some raccoons in the drainage ditch. (Raccoons are the ONE thing we have ever found that Cy has a negative-to-the-point-of-aggressive reaction to. He loves other dogs, he honestly barely registers coyotes, he thinks horses and deer look like friends, he loves cats and wants to play with them, he thinks skunks are cats... but he HATES raccoons.)
All in all, a very nice day.
So we picked one of the nearby cemeteries we'd been wanting to visit: Fairmount.
Fairmount Cemetery is an enormous (280 acre) cemetery in Denver. It was founded in 1890, and is still active. It has some lovely historic markers and above-ground crypts, including some with stained glass. (The Fairmount Mausoleum has a very extensive collection of stained glass, apparently, but we didn't go in there because Cy was with us.) We mostly drove around, getting out when we saw something interesting, both to spare Alex's ankle, and because it was pretty warm, and the dog is a weenie. There were also lots of little gnat-type bugs that mostly left me alone, but were driving Alex nuts.
The Little Ivy Chapel
One of the older crypts. I like the statue on top.
A nice bit of stained glass in a different crypt.
( Thirteen more pictures below the cut, including my favorite stained glass: )
Then we came home and took brief naps. Then went back out to buy crickets for Broccoli Cheddar Bomb, and dinner for us. Alex bought me roses. <3 And then we got home and Cy went ballistic over some raccoons in the drainage ditch. (Raccoons are the ONE thing we have ever found that Cy has a negative-to-the-point-of-aggressive reaction to. He loves other dogs, he honestly barely registers coyotes, he thinks horses and deer look like friends, he loves cats and wants to play with them, he thinks skunks are cats... but he HATES raccoons.)
All in all, a very nice day.
