Today was a still, cold October weather day following a white frost.
The red of sumacs and swamp maples are unendurable for long – the only red that does not fall is one tinged with orange or better warm brown (such as some oaks)
The very act of planning a trip has stimulated my ideas for painting – Tonight I made sketches for a picture depicting the southward flight of Monarchs across a dream-like September moon
...as I sat and beheld the marvelous beauty of the earth, it seemed as tho I should not lose a single moment doing other than just filling the eye—absorbing—absorbing—that a thousand years would not be long enough to get all one should out of the visual world...
A vast lonely evening, with tremendous overpowering melancholy; the child has vague rememberances of the terror of the Sunday School lesson of the morning in which fearful stress is put on the avenging wrath of God—
At noon Bertha called my attention to strands of spiderwebs in the sky. The trick was to get the sun back of our chimney—then they were clearly visable, by their highlights—the longer we looked the more were revealed,
A soft rainy night followed by cold glittering morning; heavy blue haze –
The intense quiet of Autumn is over the land...
A lowering sky – a flock of gulls hovering over the town…
Evening to E.L.’s [Edna Lindemann, Burchfield Penney Art Center's founding director] home in West Falls for a faculty dinner. A beautiful spot, and home – a good dinner, and a very enjoyable time –