After the conclusion of the morning planet show in June, I hardly got up early to look at the sky any more LOL, but I did want to catch Mercury at its best apparition of the year, so on this Saturday morning I recorded it in the western half of Virgo.  Here, Mercury is magnitude -0.91, noticeably more than its usual brightness.  As it moves eastward through Virgo, it is well north of the ecliptic.

View of Mercury showing the orientation of the ecliptic

View of Mercury's path through Virgo from September to October 2022