P. M. – B & I, sitting watching a pair or wrens.
All was a maze of yellow-green and emerald leaves, shot with golden yellow sunlight. Gradually I came to the decision to paint here.
A trip to Cleveland & Oberlin. To Oberlin on my wheel – Oberlin with its gothic elm-lines streets, of tremendous calm, and vast twilights – It seems strange that on such a trip of varied impressions there seems so little to record...
...today is, in reality VE day (the terms signed at 2:41 a.m.)
A heavy thick haze on the air; the horizon is lost & objects are flat – Sun becomes a dim white glow – a wind out of southwest...
O, RV, + Ind red dirt on green grass – Tulips vivid colors faces against green – or O + lt red
I felt sick at my stomach, a whole world seemed trembling about me.
To Orchard Park by bus, & thence southwards afoot to Chestnut Ridge Park. Down in ravine to make studies of rapids under bridge. The dry weather had shrunk them & made them much more interesting – work there till noon —
Cold windy blue + white day – Brill emerald grass at noon windblown