PAINTERLY

The mountains of Arizona take on an almost painterly aspect in this photograph by BIL and frequent commenter Morris William, who - like me - cannot resist gazing through the airplane window at the grand sweep of our nation as it rolls by 35,000 feet below him.

Thomas Kinkade - the self-styled Painter of Light - wishes he could paint like this. But to fit his trademark style, he’d have to goose it up with a few cottages... a babbling brook... a lighthouse... perhaps a sleepy, snowbound village... all suffused with golden, glowing light. Kinda like:


I’ll stick with Morris William’s vision, thankyewverymuch.