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sleep, I doubted any sight would interest me, let alone exhilarate me.
However, as the clouds were racing across the mountains early one morning, they suddenly opened up to create what in Southeast Alaska (where it can rain 365 days a year) is called a glory hole — a break in the clouds that lets the sun shine through and light up a small area of the ground below. This glory hole opened up over Thornton Gap down to Sperryville. With all the moisture in the air, the light had a soft, glowing luminosity that reminded me of the nineteenth-century painters of the Hudson River School of art.
These painters used light effects to dramatically portray such atmospheric elements as mist and sunsets.
This technique became known as “Luminism.” (For more on Luminism, including examples of Luminist paintings, check out http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/hudson-river-school.html on the Web.)
The National Gallery of Art has some of these paintings in its permanent collection, but several years ago it featured a show of just Luminist paintings.
As someone who gets spine tingly anytime light breaks through the clouds during a storm, or when mists diffuse light to create a soft, magical glow, this show was heaven (no pun intended) for me.
Today the style would be considered overly romantic, but the real show in^ nature can be as spectacular — as it was last week.
White I’ve seen glory holes open
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