Faith and begorrah, would you look at what I woke up to this mornin'...?!
I had no idea! I'll have to start referring to them as "The O'Kittehs"...
One more thing...
Do you see it? The four-leafed one in the middle? Not a Shamrock, sure, but a lucky clover! :) ~ My great Aunt Mamie used to get me with this when I was little...it just takes a leaf from another clover and a little spit, you see ~ (it won't work without it!)...;)
Sorry for all the Blarney ~ I couldn't resist!
Now, for some really beautiful Irish subject matter...
These monuments are in Gettysburg Battlefield (Gettysburg National Military Park), taken
in summer 2010...
in summer 2010...
The New York Infantry's Irish Brigade monument...
I thought the Irish Wolfhound's vigil at the base of the Celtic cross was so poignant...
I took lots and lots of pictures, from every angle ~ this was one of my favorite monuments.
(Thank Heavens for digital SLRs...)
Irish symbolism all over, cast in bronze...
Gettysburg Battlefield was nothing like I expected...though, I'm not really sure what I expected ~ impressive, however, it was.
You really could tell it was hallowed ground.
There were wide open spaces, of course ~ cliffs, huge rock outcroppings...Little Round Top;
Devil's Den...
but many, many of the hundreds of monuments were deep in the woods...you would drive through really dense woods, then all of a sudden there would be a little clearing, and a monument ~ often with a little path around it and trailing into the woods.
(See above ~ and detail, below) ... that's another monument to the Irish soldiers.)
The life-sized bronze statues were fabulously detailed...just amazing...I took so many photos!
It was the middle of the afternoon when we got there, and dusk ~ really almost dark...before we left...I was using every last little bit of sun for picture-taking; the sunset-light on some of the bronzes was really beautiful.
I could have stayed another whole day, I think, just looking at details...
I would definitely go back, and stay much longer!
It was the middle of the afternoon when we got there, and dusk ~ really almost dark...before we left...I was using every last little bit of sun for picture-taking; the sunset-light on some of the bronzes was really beautiful.
I could have stayed another whole day, I think, just looking at details...
I would definitely go back, and stay much longer!
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