Evening — the Bulger cocktail party, dinner and opening of the Collectors of W.N.Y. Exhibition (at Upton Hall)
A.M. planted bloodroot under spirea bushes in front of the house. To the Varysburg country. A cold day with heavy, gray clouds from the north...
"...Thunder commences to boom ...Pleasing sound of thunder...fall of rain hear as the last – thunder is heard..."
After lunch to studio – remounted the “Swamp-fire at Evening” – Then studied “Northwind in March,” and “Solitude” – The later seems ready for the final creative effort – I long to get at it.
Sun RO at setting – Down by water at tunnel – Valley full of moonlight very pale blue – Fishes trying to swim up rapids – shoot up a ways sending up spray – catch hold of rock – flash of silver side – Read Rubaiyat by moonlight till 10:00.
Sunny but cold — The daffodils and hyacinth are in their first full splendor. Dwarf white and purple violets are packed with bloom...
Last night looking at the “Burning Stumps” I came to the conclusion that the big tree in the foreground would have to be eliminated...
The woods of slender straight half grown trees- the patch of blue sky, a feeling of some elemental quality to it.
Sky cleared by mid-morning — We decided to visit the Big Woods — First to Gowanda for lunch (at the Gowanda Hotel)...
"Crimson sun in the heavy rainbow haze – in the dense blue haze all trees seem dripping with rain..."