That’s not real

Somehow lately I’ve been struck by how often the sky turns amazing colors. This one was subtle… Hudson River School, southern edition.

The classic sci fi and fantasy illustrations of my youth often featured impossible skies — too many colors, too many moons, spaceships, dragons — but lately I’ve been thinking a lot of the colors at least weren’t so unrealistic as all that. (I guess it also shows what a nerdy kid I was that I even noticed the sky, given the picture almost certainly featured a very hot girl in a very exotic space-bikini)