"... – warm & drowsy. Cicadas again."
A wonderful meal from beginning to end.
Evening Mart & her friend to Niagara Falls; Just before sundown all of us to Pipe Creek, as it seemed the only time it would be for Mary Alice to see it.
Arrive after sundown. Down into ravine, altho it is already growing dark. Very difficult to see – mystery.
As the sun goes down a dense blue haze comes over the earth – a chill in the air –
Beech – grove below me at dusk –
In painting the horizon sun; paint a burst of light, then the black jagged edges of trees, & the openings in the trees as missapen things
A fresh cool morning. A slight dew. Thin-sparkled grass...
"All day on the “Sphynx and Milky Way”..."
– I thought it was all done but when I set it up in the house, a serious problem became evident –
P.M. To Zimmerman Road painting. Again in the swampy (dry now) tract enclosed on thru the constant hum of insects; millions of tiny flies, sunlit – Paint all afternoon. It is a constant struggle from beginning to end.