– do not organize design or paint pattern – paint the sweeping of snow, the agony of the trees, the roar & rush of wind; the burst of sunlight; the far remoteness of houses, the small town feeling –
Visit from Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Wyeth (the latter here on jury duty for W.N.Y. show) – I showed them my new things in the studio — They were completely amazed by the Nuthatches...
There is an excitement in riding on a street-car when you have no objective - At a certain point the canal looked so interesting we got off and made for it, came to some locks -
Going home I felt as Paul did in “All Quiet on the Western Front” when he left his dying comrade. I wanted to “see” everything to the fullest extent.
Repairs going on at our house. Short pieces of clapboards lying about.
Most people see nature only through the eye of a great poet or artist—
Don't let anyone kid you about the title—after all, why not Sea Shells, or Sun Glare or Sun Shimmer or what have you? What's in a name?
make this the first sentence – along some road to the north running east & west, is a lonely farmhouse with a row of young maples in front of it
As we approach the summer solstice our brief taste of tropical weather begins – heavy moist windless heat saturates the earth – the rank meadows reek with hot buttercups –
In bed, —the lightning increases in brilliance, almost continuous—the wind rises, the poplar tree outside my window, a writhing tortured black many fingered mass, with wild lightning curling around it