Fields on the Zaragoza side, from the Mirador de las Tres Huegas ridge
Martha Bridegam writes: This was taken at sunset, not at dawn, and Chapter 4 describes a different part of the front. So this image doesn't do justice to the following:
"... But there were mornings when the sight of the dawn among the mountain-tops made it almost worthwhile to be out of bed at godless hours. I hate mountains, even from a spectacular point of view. But sometimes the dawn breaking behind the hill-tops in our rear, the first narrow streaks of gold, like swords slitting the darkness, and then the growing light and the seas of carmine cloud stretching away into inconceivable distances, were worth watching even when you had been up all night, when your legs were numb from the knees down and you were sullenly reflecting that there was no hope of food for another three hours. I saw the dawn oftener during this campaign than during the rest of my life put together — or during the part that is to come, I hope...."- Homage to Catalonia, Chapter 4
