Fog and Gray and Rain

Sorting through pictures today on my hard-drive; a few favorites of the Gettysburg battlefield in the rain and fog.  Seemed appropriate for a very gray February day.

Image of Cowan’s New York Battery near the Angle in the rain.  Taken in December 2007. Visible beyond the cannon is the Codori Barn.

(These are far from my best pictures in most cases, but they have a certain dark and forlorn beauty that I can appreciate and I hope you enjoy them too.  The field takes on a ghostly appearance in the fog and rain.)

Set one, from upper left.  The Codori Farm from the Wheatfield Road, rain beaded like droplets of sweat on the bust of Patrick O’Rourke on Little Round Top, Warren in the fog on Little Round Top, view towards newly cleared Devil’s Den from the 140th New York monument

 

Set two, from upper left. The Bushman farm from Seminary Ridge near the position of the Texas Brigade, Meade at the Angle, the Trostle Barn, view of the Peach Orchard in the rain from the Longstreet tower.

 

Set three from upper left. The 155th Pennsylvania Zouaves on Little Round Top, Culp’s Hill near position of the 123rd New York, the Masonic Monument - Armistead hands his effects to Capt. Bingham of Hancock’s staff, the High Water Mark Monument at the Angle.

Set four from upper left. Personal favorite series — shots of the Bushman and Slyder farms taken from South Confederate Avenue along Seminary Ridge.

Set four from upper left. Detail of the 2nd New York Cavalry horsehead, the Pennsylvania monument from the Emmitsburg Road, the 44th New York castle on Little Round Top, the Peace Light Monument.

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