Challenge entry
I can’t believe it took me so long to get around to this one. I love the idea. However, I’ve already shown off my altar quite a bit, so I will go with something different.
I feel at peace in forests and mountains, and my heart often yearns for them. When amongst the trees, connecting with the earth and feeling the ancient nature of the natural world around us is effortless.
The following are some photos from Pelister (Пелистер) National Park near Bitola in Macedonia. Bitola is in the southern part of Macedonia, near the border with Greece.
The Pelister National Park is named after the highest peak in the mountain range, while the mountainous area itself is called Baba Planina (Баба Планина), which means Grandma Mountain. The name Pelister possibly originates from antiquity, probably given by ancient tribes—Pelagonians and Linkestides—who lived just under Baba Mountain in this part of the plain Pelagonia.
Pelagonians are one of the ethnic communities that inhabited the area around the Crna River (Црна Река), meaning Black River, adjacent to the ancient settlement Stobi (Стоби). Around this area was the city of Heraclea Lyncestis (Хераклеја Линкестис), founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC and named in honour of the mythological hero Heracles. The name Lynkestis originates from the name of the ancient kingdom where the city was built. (Remember I mentioned the Linkestides? Yep.)
Anyway, that’s enough of a history lesson on this area. I would love to be able to share photos of my own, but I need to be able to access my HDD to do so. 
(Hopefully, I will eventually find the right headers to repair the thing.) So, the following photos are ones that I’ve pulled from the internet.
Pelister National Park… is located in the Baba Mountain massif and covers an area of 171.5 square kilometres (66.2 sq mi). The altitude of the park varies between 927 and 2,601 m (3,041 and 8,533 ft) above sea level and is filled with exquisite flora and fauna.
Among flora elements, the presence is especially significant of the five-needle pine molica, Pinus peuce - a unique species of Cenozoic age being present on only a few mountains in the Balkan Peninsula. The beauty of the landscape is enhanced by the diverse wildlife: bears, roe deer, wolves, chamois, deer, wild boars, rabbits, several species of eagles, partridges, red-billed choughs, and the endemic Macedonian Pelagonia trout. – Pelister National Park - Wikipedia
[Пелистер (национален парк) – Уикипедия]
This area defines peace to me, and I hope the photos can help you, the viewer, feel a little bit of it as well.
