Four Peaceful Places . . .

In some earlier posts in these pages, way earlier, I mentioned I'm a fan of Eliot Porter's photography. Few photographers have inspired me like he has. While out tramping around in eastern France these past few days, trying to gain a better appreciation for some of the history of the First World War, a few shots taken could be said to be in homage to Eliot Porter.
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In the shadow of the American memorial monument at Montfaucon, a rose, thistles, and barbed wire still life . . .
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On top of Fort Douaumont, Verdun Battlefield, the ground is still pitted with shell holes, 90 years later . . .
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In the forest that now covers an area just across the Meuse River from Verdun known as Hill 304, yet another of the many intensely bloody battlefields of that conflict, nature and quiet seem to be gaining the upper hand . . .
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On the stone wall of a munitions depot in the forest near the Froideterre Fort, north of Verdun, leaves were going red . . . their roots eating into the mortar, one day those walls will fall . . .
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