One of the nicest and most satisfying episodes of our lives – a fine group of students (43 in all) – with a wonderful comrade-like spirit pervading all our activities – the cliché “work-hard & play-hard” certainly applied to them.
In the night, it suddenly came to me that a picture of countless butterflies dancing in hot sunlight would be worthwhile.
The last few days hot and dry. Beginning of drought? It seems so. During midday clouds gather that seem unmistably thunderheads and a storm seems imminent but sundown comes with clear skies and calm air.
Tall trees standing motionless with flat green shadows - there is a film over the sun, and the air takes on a hazy brassy appearance –
To country north and east of Lancaster. A brilliant July day - exactly what I needed for my picture. First to Harris Hill Rd, and parked on Pleasant View Road near its junction with this road...
A dappled rain-imminent day – the sky moved in patches, and at times the sun caught the open spaces and lit up the earth with pale light –
A clear warm day –
Weeding gardens and cutting out overhanging branches of the mock-orange bush west of studio.
A calm clear blue skied —day w— a few white clouds—
In this picture there is, in the distance, beyond the wheat field, a number of groupings of trees, with a vista between.
Booming white windy day clouds, wind waves across bending hay, clawing blue green oats against yellowing wheat, stiff hot wind, harsh chirping call of meadowlarks