A dappled sky, silver sun – wind out of SW is it the wind or the Equinox? Windy poplars against yellow & white dapple rifts robins sing...
Day of heavy opaque mists – Evening out McKinley – air full of the smell of burning rags & tarpaper. Bentleys – the First [Hepaticas] – robin singing overhead – pale sunlight thru the saplings...
How good it was to be out in the open again! ... on all sides I felt the presence of God, and the goodness of his creation...
Yesterday’s thaw ended suddenly last night with a snowstorm & gale that came without warning (about 9:00) – This morning, very cold and a high wind from the west...
"This was the coldest day of the winter. It was cloudy, the sun only shining a little in the morning. The wind was very cold and blew straight and hard from the west..."
We played a word game – seeing who could make the most words our of F.T. Coppins – between us we arrived at 51.
A.M.- B & I to city line- P.M. Waited around the afternoon, for a visit from Melvin Schmidt and his art teacher (E. Aurora H.S.) – Melvin had told Cathie and Art at the drugstore they would call today. They did not come...
Late P.M. a kite suddenly appears overhead - Politicians are worrying what to do with atomic power, and the airplane has “changed our world” but Thank God, boys still fly kites! May it always be so...
The morning sun up full and strong - a robin in the poplar tree just outside the window. B & I to Gowanda to get maple syrup. Pleasant to be out-a fine March day...
First Robin song - songsparrows.