Young David’s reactions interested me particularly – He went to the heart of a picture, by-passing things that bother adults.
Cards from Sally, that they have found an apartment in Waterville. Wounded wax wing. Working on frames–very hot, but dry. All day the robins on all sides singing madly...
"...July opens with a cool rainy day. The sky is downcast. The rain comes down evenly & quietly. A cool breeze stirs the sluggish air..."
Framed and sent to Rehn’s, three pictures. (via Amer. Frtways) “Sun, Moon + Star” – “March Wind 1951” and “A Stormy Day in March” –
June 29. – Evening – Great thunderheads moving majestically thru the Southern Sky – tops lit up by the sun, long below the horizon.
I felt all the thrill of 1915.
A busy week – getting frames and pictures ready for the West Seneca Centennial Exhibition (visit of Judge Schmidle & his sister) – ordering announcements – letters – etc.
A hot muggy day—morning cloudy, rain threatening but more comes. P.M. set up my easel under fallen tree. When I had “layout” completed a storm in the S.W...
As a brewing storm loomed low in the west robins sang to the sultry noon as if it were hepatica time.
– the countryside still beautiful in spite of the drought
Some wheat ripening already –