I am just as well satisfied with the delay for it will give me more time to prepare a few more drawings, which is the sort of thing that seems to go best now….
Not so cold (+10°) – Sunny, with beautiful small cumulus clouds, dazzlingly white – at morning (particularly and at various other times) the air full of snow crystals, which caught the sunlight in bewilderingly beautiful sparkles –
To Whitney Museum to see “History of American Water Color Painting” exhibition. Museum closed, but I called up from the drugstore across the street, and they let me in...
A glorious day...A Heavy frost that bristles the grass white
P.M. – Lying down – the NBC concert – Beethoven 3rd Symph. + V. [Vaughan] Williams two piano concerto – rugged noble music.
Two slightly cold days. An easy wind and ceaseless sweep-away of cold blue clouds. The ground does not freeze, except at night a filmy crust. Today at times it snowed — a peculiar ghostly snow as if we imagined it. Early in the evening a bullet-shower.
Bertha and I exchanged Valentines in the morning, happy and more in love than ever.
Tomorrow is Valentine Day. I only sent four – “ugly” ones; to Joe, to Bill, to King and to Ray Williams. I almost gave myself away by stamping them with Mullins stamping machine –
A.M. working on “Hepaticas” (1952) and putting it in its frame. Letters from Evie & Cathie...
"...This is a Spring morning. Spring is merely a state of the mind...My aim has been and is yet, merely to become an instrument which shall record the beauty of nature..."