Good Morning!

Bellini's Agony in the Garden may seem an odd way to rise and shine but for whatever reason I thought of this gorgeous sky and thought to share it with you. You have likely been up early and seen dawn. Isn't it wonderful that Bellini managed to capture it just so!

It seems so easy that he would have produced such a sky given the great skies of Turner, Winslow Homer and others. But this painting was produced in the 1460s when such naturalism was still uncommon. Perhaps Christ found comfort not only in the vision of an angel with a chalice but also the possibilities of a new day.

At any rate, here is wishing you a day unencumbered with phantom visitors but filled with all the beauties of glorious summer!