Cathedrals

Cathedrals: Exiting the bright sunlight into Cathedrale Notre Dame de Chartres one is immediately enveloped in a chill dark silence as one's eyes gradually adjust to follow the massive columns that seemingly reach for the heavens aglow in the light from soft stained-glass windows. Maybe one of the finest examples of man's attempt to commune with his God in quiet contemplation. Not to be undone, to walk the path through an old growth deciduous forest, its massive trunks twisted and gnarled by time and weather, one can't but feel a touch of the spiritual, the cool quiet making one wonder the beauty of life itself in all its many forms.