"Flevit super illam" (He Wept Over It), 1892 Enrique Simonet (Spanish, 1866-1927) Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Kate Sammons, Korean-American (1972- ), Tea in Blue, 2016, oil on panel, 14 x 11 in, private collection

John the Baptist Flanders, c. 1500 Yale University Art Gallery

"Saint George and the Dragon," 1434–35 Bernat Martorell (Spanish, 1395-1452) The Art Institute of Chicago

"A Fairy Or Kersti And A View Of A Meadow," 1899 Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919) Private Collection (?)

"Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved." ~N. T. Wright, For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

"Garden Rose and Blue Forget-Me-Nots in a Vase," c. 1871-78 Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894) Private Collection

lda Ten Eyck O'Keeffe, American (1889-1961), Variation on a Lighthouse Theme VII, 1931-32, oil on canvas, c 26.13 x 20.25 in, The Buck Collection at the UCI Institute and Museum for California Art, Irvine, California, USA

"Going to School," 1882 Jules Bastien-Lepage (French, 1848–1884) Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

"Morning," 1895 Patrick William Adam (Scottish, 1854–1929) Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture

"The Chapel of the Palace of Versailles," between 1917 and 1919 Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) Musée d'Orsay

Happy birthday to E. B. White (1899-1985): “Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”~EBW (Illustration from an article from Casa Carlini publishing house)

10 July 1830 - 13 Nov 1903 Camille Pissarro, Danish-French (1830-1903), La ronde, 1892, tempera and gouache on paper, 64.8 x 81 cm, private collection .

Albert Marquet (1875-1947) — The Large Olive Tree, 1943.

"It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, . . . Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see." ~Fyodorov, "Bel Canto," by Ann Pachett

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) — Corfu Lights and Shadows.

"Nocturne in Black and Gold–The Falling Rocket," 1875 James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903) Detroit Institute of Arts

"By the Sea," 1904 Louis Valtat (French, 1869-1952) Private Collection

Henry Scott Tuke, British (1858-1929), French Barque in Falmouth Bay, 1902, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth, England

"Church Folk" J. Stacy Utley (Contemporary American Interdisciplinary Artist) Art Institute of Boston_MFA Blog, now archived

The New Yorker magazine cover, July 3, 1971. Happy birthday, America!

"Watermelon," 1986 Yayoi Kusama (Japanese, born 1929) Private Collection

John George Brown, English-American (1831-1913), Reading on the Rocks, Grand Manan, c 1877, oil on canvas, 58.4 x 38.1 cm, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Welcome, July! "New England Beach Scene," 1896-97 Maurice Prendergast (Newfoundlander/American, 1858-1924) Private Collection

William Trost Richards, American (1833-1905), The Conservatory, 1860, oil on wood panel, 27.62 x 21.75 cm, private collection

Childe Hassam, American (1859-1935), Summer Evening, Paris, 1889, oil on canvas

"Clamdigger," 1935 Edward Hopper (American, 1882-1967) Private Collection

"Quebec Village (Saint-Hilarion)" aka "Village Church," 1926 Arthur Lismer (Canadian, 1885-1969) Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Canada

"Nice, View of the Beach from the Quai Du Midi," 1852 Ippolito Caffi (Italian, 1809-1866) Private Collection

"White Tulips," 1920 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (Scottish, 1868-1928) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

"Let us therefore go forth and steward one another’s stories. Let us journey from here together, as vessels of that mercy and as stewards of that wild and wondrous beauty that flows from the heart and mind of our Creator." ~excerpt from "Every Moment Holy, A Liturgy for Leavings"

"Herb Garden at Noon" Timothy Easton (British [Suffolk], b. 1943)

William Page Atkinson Wells, Scottish (1872-1923), Girl in a Meadow, 1905, oil on canvas, 61 x 45.7 cm, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England

"Love one another deeply as brothers and sisters. Take the lead in honoring one another." ~Romans 12:10 CSB

"The Return of the Prodigal Son,” c. 1660s Rembrandt (Dutch, 1606-1669) Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

"The Regattas at Moseley," 1874 Alfred Sisley (French-British, 1839-1899) Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Tobeen (Félix Bonnet), French (1880-1938), Bouquet, c 1920, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

You are the God who formed us, The God who knows us, The God who loves us, The God who leads us, The God who feeds us, The God who blesses us, The beginning and end of all that we are, and hope to be. Worthy of our praise. ~John Birch, Faith and Worship

George Stevens, British (active c 1810-1864), Girl With Flower Basket, 1842, oil on canvas, relined, 114.5 x 91 cm, private collection

"It was June, and the world smelled of roses." ~Maud Hart Lovelace, "Betsy-Tacy, and Tib" "The Crimson Rambler," ca. 1915 Gari Melchers (American, 1860-1932) Private Collection

"When we focus on what we can accomplish rather than the people we are called to serve, we become victims of our own ambition, and so do they." ~Jon Tyson, The Burden Is Light

Henri Lebasque, French (1865-1937), Vase de fleurs, oil on canvas, 46.2 x 38.7 cm, private collection

"Idyll, Javea," 1900 Joaquín Sorolla (Spanish, 1863-1923) Sorolla Museum, Madrid

"Wildflower Meadow," 1987 Rosalind Wise (Welsh, b. 1949) Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

And now for something completely different… Frithjof Smith-Hald (Norwegian, 1846 - 1903), The plein air painters, 1872, Oil on canvas, 56 x 41 cm. The main characters of the artwork: friends and colleagues Otto Sinding and Johannes Grimelund, who are depicted painting the view before them.

Willy Kriegel (1901-1966), The Night, c. 1943 #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." ~Goethe

Jozef lsraëls, Dutch (1824-1911), Dreaming (Between Sky and Sea), 1860, oil on canvas, 128.5 x 201.2 cm, private collection

"Ducks," 1920 Jessie Arms Botke (American, 1883–1971) Private Collection