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“. . .the forces of nature, here in harmony with humanity”

A beautiful thought. These exquisite images remind me of words I’ve often heard from you, “always look up”. Even before seeing this post last night, I thought of those words when I saw a beautiful sky almost a replica of yours with the gorgeous pink shades.

The beautiful blue in the first photo & the clouds in the lovely painting echo the same thought, “always look up”.

A nice thought for approaching any day. There may be surprises awaiting.

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Thank you for sharing those pictures. Looks like it was a wonderful week. I hope you get to go cross-country skiing again this winter. Those warm colors of the evening sky are just what I needed on a grey Sunday morning.

That painting made me google the artist and I found his nephew first (he was buried in Haarlem on March 14, 1682 - the date struck me as interesting). Different spelling of the last name though. I found some other interesting things looking around the National Gallery of Canada. Thank you for that.

I love how this picture of Luna almost looks like it's black and white and how her right front paw is pointing inside. She's not entirely committed to what's going on outside or has already lost interest and is about to turn. It's not like I overanalyze everything ;-). Lovely picture.

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It was the season that leaves are blown around, she enjoys that. On sunny days, she is more interested in light reflections on the walls. She is quite good at catching those.

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Thanks for the laugh. I can just picture her :-)

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These are wonderful images and thoughts! I wanted to also mention I really resonated with the albatros post the other day - a bird I would love to see in person. 🙏

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yes, they are so elegant (well, once they are up in the air, they can be quite clumsy on landings and sometimes they can't get out of the water if there is no wind)

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The wide range of colors in the sky are awesome. It appears that Luna is fascinated too. Enjoy.

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haha, she has other interests

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. . . daytime light

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Awesome painting by Van Ruysdael, to me it looks like the sailor is running out of daytime?

I think I'm to the west of you, good night (-:

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It looks like it. Although painted in a studio, the ship seems to sail to the northeast in the evening light. We normally have the wind from the southwest in the Netherlands, and since the sails are out on both sides of the ship you know that the wind must come precisely from behind. If the assumption of sailing northeast is correct, that would confirm it is indeed evening light, since at the end of the day the sun is in the west, which is the case in this painting. So he may have been running out of daylight if he would have been painting 'en plain air' which was technically too difficult in those days (for instance the paint would dry out too easily). It would take another century before painting outside was first tested (oil paintings I mean, let's not forget about the impressive Lascaux artists some 20,000 years ago) and nearly a hundred years more before this became the hype in the time of the School of Barbizon.

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I just learned something new about sailing and something new in art history! Thank you! ❤️🙏🏼❤️

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I’m a former sailing instructor and son of an art historian 😉

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