Ever wish you could step into a painting and walk around in it?

Feast your eyes on The Geographer! (1665 Vermeer) The colors have me rapt! The scientist suspended uncomfortably in a moment of realization, mouth open, gazing out the window...absorbing what he sees only in his mind. The globe, the map, the room is bathed in a wash of streaming light from the window. Every item in the room is adorned in it's place according to it's relation to the sun. As he, the studier, studies the earth. His face- half darkened. Who he is personally, is not important. His work is important. The table-rug askew, its beauty bundled, cast aside. And this moment is suspended for us, to take our long looks into.

What joy to see it! What delicious beauty! I told David that he'll know I've gone off the deep end if one day he finds me sitting alone, eating an art book- page by glorious page!