A Wayside Shrine

[poliphilo]

A wayside shrine outside the village of Houtave

Comments

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Ooh, nice photo!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thanks

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I think that even if you didn't see where this was you would know.
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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's a landscape like no other I know.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

That's lovely, both shrine and landscape! Flat, flat, flat and a bit like La Mancha in Spring.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But not as warm....:)

[sovay]

Flat, flat, flat and a bit like La Mancha in Spring.

One of Jacques Brel's songs to his native West Flanders is "Le plat pays qui est le mien"—the flat land which is mine.

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love stuff like that. There's of course nothing of that scale out here, but smaller roadside memorials for traffic-crash victims are becoming more and more common, and they're both fascinating and poignant.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

In Flanders there are chapels and shrines at almost every intersection.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

I don't think that we have any of that kind of shrine here in the states, just a few small roadside chapels... that I have seen. It's interesting!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

In Flanders you find something like this at almost every intersection.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Oh, good--pictures.

I love the pilgrim bike for traveling from shrine to shrine.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That was my bike. I hadn't ridden one for decades, but I thought I'd give it a go (what with the roads being so flat) and it was as if I'd never left off.

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

I love these wayside shrines in Belgium. I love Belgium, too - unfortunately, they just axed our local ferry link:-(

Good to see you back - hope you had a great time! (I'm sure you did...)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We went through the Channel Tunnel. It's a long drive down, but the actual crossing is a doddle.

[kinderheldin.livejournal.com]

Innocence/beginnings and experience/endings. Both, a little surreal.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You've put your finger on why I knew- instinctively- that the bike needed to be in the picture.