A.M. Take Bertha to swamp, on way we stop to get a few plants- the woman voluble about her family troubles...
A bitter cold day- A.M. to Varysburg & Wethersfield- too cold to get much. P.M. Home & take “catechumens” to Elma...
Art passes his examination and is sworn in (today) into the Air Force. He will leave for San Antonio the night of June 1.
P.M. Take M.A. and Marie to Elma for catechism instruction. In the meantime I to little grove at end of Jamison road. The land slopes gently down to the west from this place...
"...I am always hurrying someplace at the critical point in a nature phenomena..."
Dandelions a flood of golden yellow facing the sun –
The evening is oppressively warm; this year’s Spring has developed too rapidly; a pall is over the sky; to the south a thunderstorm hangs motionless, spreading over the heavens in a huge gray expanse—
P.M. Bertha & I to Gowanda for [poke] greens. Arthur who had fallen and skinned his knee on the way home from school was permitted to go along, much to his delight...
B & I to Gowanda Country – a bright clearing day after the heavy showers of last night. Took the road straight south after leaving Hamburg instead of Route 62 – a delightful winding road...
Our 32nd anniversary...Drove to the Hillside Woods about 20 miles south of Springville (where we used to go for Hepaticas).