Part of my morning discipline: get a little better at sketching and painting every day.

I’ll be taking students to Greece again in a few weeks, so I’m going over some photos from previous trips and thinking about color and light.

Is any sky so blue as in Greece? Maybe, but the blue skies there are painted on the walls of my heart’s restful chambers.

A watercolor painting depicts a classic, rectangular stone structure surrounded by greenery and a cloudy sky.&10;&10;Okay, the above was written by AI, and it’s not bad. But I’ll add this: it’s a watercolor that I did this morning, of the Treasury of the Athenians in Delphi, a small structure that has been partially rebuilt just downhill from the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It’s a lovely little structure that is always surrounded by green grass and flowers. In the background are the tall dark trees, including cylindrical cypress trees, which are commonly found in Greek cemeteries as memorials.