Awake at 3:30 – up finally at 4:15 & start to get ready. Off at 6:00. – A beautiful hour – the last moon crescent high in the southeast; Orion setting in the west...
"...The wind among the leaves typifies the freedom I want to give myself...'
Some cleaning up in yard, putting away benches etc., a partly cloudy cold brilliant day with dramatic “sun-behind cloud effects” I seem to be dead artistically.
I went to the studio and tried to work — but the sunlight and cloudless sky outside kept nagging at me – and I suggested to Bertha (who was doing the washing) we go to Niagara Falls for lunch, to which she joyfully assented –
Still rain & cold –In studio, studio, studio various pictures especially the Sunburst, which needs enlarging and redesigning
Grey smoky November—a cool morning—yellow & ochre rifts in the sky that sweeps from NW at times silver sun in low SE. Heavy yellow haze—
On the walk to work – house roofs in shadow are purple while sky is watery cerulean – Sunlit houses of whatever local color are lighter than sky –
A.M. – Bertha & I to Wyoming Village, by way of Blossim, Bullis Rd, Cowlesville, Attica, Middleboro Village. A cold day, with lowering sky, driven by a S.W. wind...
"A wonderful day. Clouds break early and by noon the sky is clear. Spring like feeling. At evening an electric chill in the air as of early March or February dusks..."
Bertha writing letters – I to studio, to put my journal in order. I had not been there long until Mart + Hank came out – They had rung the doorbell but got no answer, so concluded we were in the studio –