Fairview Cemetery

"A dreaded sunny day, so I'll meet you at the cemetery gates," cheeks the pope of mope, Morrissey, in one of my favorite Smiths songs.  I love this graveyard, and it must certainly be one of Cody's top 3 places to romp about in Ann Arbor with the way she always pulls us toward its entrance.  The name is Fairview Cemetery.  Not Greatview or Crappyview, it's just fair.  I suppose it's apt; nothing more fair than death.

The sun is coming up earlier these days, so we can wake up at a leisurely 6am now, get a workout in, and still catch the sunrise for the entire walk.  Clearview skies one might say.  Friggin' freezing is what I'd call it.  10 degrees feels like -6. 

Absolom Traver bought all the land that our neighborhood squats on in 1831, so he gets this big statue and his name on the road.  Show off.

Squirrels sometimes find safety from ferocious pups atop this statues head.

This obelisk easily makes my top-25 obelisks of all time.

"The whole number of enlistments from 5th ward during the war was 25."

I wondered which war this was...

"Erected by subscription through the efforts of the Ladies Decoration Society May 30, 1874."

OH, that Civil War!

Peek a boo!

Kinda makes you want to make a snow angel, doesn't it?

Thanks for your parts, everyone.

The markers to the left of that fuzzy thing are for the donors.

Whachulookinat?

This is the oldest part of the cemetery.  Back then the dead didn't care much about uniformity.

Not fade away

Rumor has it the name Eloisa is finally making a comeback.