Interesting Pictures from March 2008

Some interesting pictures from my March 2008 Gettysburg trip.  (I have many, many sunsets, monuments, barns, etc.  These are just a few of the more interesting shots.

Pretty much anything you can think of, I probably have a picture or three of it, if not from this trip, then from a past trip.)

The New Visitor Center

This is the new Visitor Center as viewed from the Culp’s Hill tower.  If you like, here’s the Old Cyclorama building for comparison purposes.  And here’s a skewed horizon shot of the old entrance to the Visitor Center itself. (I hated skewed horizons, but this is the only picture I have of the old Visitor Center.)

Tree Cutting in the Den

This is the Devil’s Den as viewed from South Confederate Avenue near the Bushman farm.  You can now actually see the Devil’s Den from the Emmitsburg Road, which is something you could never do before.  In this image, you can see the comfort station and just “below” it the monument to Companies E&H (Vermont) Sharpshooters (the monument with the hornet’s nest on it.)

My Favorite Shot of the Trip

I won’t bore you with the boatloads of sunset pictures, scenic pictures, monuments and markers, barns, etc. that I took, but this was my favorite image of the trip.  It depicts the 40th New York monument taken from behind looking towards Devil’s Den.  The monument in the distance is to the 99th Pennsylvania.

(The Devil’s Den, Valley of Death, Wheatfield area remains my absolute favorite part of the battlefield.)

OK, OK, I lied.  I really liked this one of Father Corby taken on Easter Saturday too.  (And … must refrain from posting the zillions of Warren sunsets I took …)

Finally, although Cleveland didn’t get the memo yet, this old tree near the Almshouse Cemetery suggests spring IS on it’s way.  And what is with all the crows?  (Careful readers note that Jenny loves crows.)

Anyway, these are a few not necessairly “great” or “fantastic” shots, but ones that I thought were kind of interesting and updated the battlefield progress.